A Brief History Of The Naacp
The NAACP was founded by on February 12, 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling to work for the rights of colored people in response to the 1908 race riot in Springfield. It has worked through the American legal system to fulfill its goals of full suffrage and an end to segregation and racial violence. A series of early court battles, including a victory against a discriminatory Oklahoma law that regulated voting by means of a grandfather clause helped establish the NAACP's importance as a legal advocate. The organization also learned the power of publicity through its 1915 campaign against D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, a movie that glorified the Ku Klux Klan and their actions. Throughout the 1920s the fight against lynching was among the association's top priorities.
During the Great Depression, the NAACP began to focus on economic justice. President Roosevelt agreed to open......
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