NAACP

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The NAACP stand for National Association for the Advanced Colored People. It was founded on February 12, 1909. The movement was created in response to the race riot in Springfield, Illinois that occurred one year earlier. Their main goal was to create equal opportunities for African Americans. The group is well known for its indirect confrontation. Unlike most civil rights movements the NCAAP eliminated racial discrimination through lobbying, legal acts, and education. The program worked towards areas of voting, employment, housing, schools, recreation and transportation. Some of the organization’s first members were Mary Ovington, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Oswald Garrison Villard, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick L. McGhee, Moorfield Storey, J.E. Spingarn, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

The National Association for the Advanced Colored People, played important roles in many legal decisions. In 1954 the NAACP made a great contribution on the Supreme Court’s final decision Brown v. Board Education. The outcome of this case was able to put an end to public school segregation. Some other civil rights movements the NAACP is known for being involved in is Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Acts of 1968, and the Civil Rights Act of 1975. [|3]

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