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Also Known As National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date 1909 - present
Headquarters Baltimore • New York City
Areas Of Involvement Civil rights • Today in History—May 17: Day 1: Brown v. Board of Education • Spingarn Medal
Related People W.E.B. Du Bois • Fred Shuttlesworth • Rosa Parks • Ida B. Wells • Edward R. Dudley • Jim Clyburn • Madam C.J. Walker • Robert Williams • Daisy Lampkin • Daisy Bates • Septima Poinsette Clark • Shirley Chisholm • Florence Kelley • Lugenia Burns Hope • Ella Baker

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A chilling message
W.E.B. Du Bois
Portrait of Mary White Ovington wearing glasses and a dark blouse, looking slightly to the side against a plain background.
Ida B. Wells
Springfield Race Riot
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The NAACP
Cover of the October 1914 issue of The Crisis magazine featuring a young Black girl in a plaid dress, with the headline reading The Children's Number, Crisis, October 1914.
The NAACP's anti-lynching campaign
NAACP Protest
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