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Tracy Grant
Tracy Grant is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She previously served as editor in chief, the first woman to hold that title.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article thoroughly revised. | Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States. | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Chicago Press Journals - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (PDF). | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Case Western Reserve University - Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - National association for the advancement of colored people. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 20, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| Link added. | Jan 11, 2023 | ||
| Noted that the NAACP began publishing The Crisis in 1910. | Oct 18, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian - National Museum of American History - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Feb 22, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The History Learning Site - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - History and Archaeology - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Jun 10, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Ohio History Central - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Sep 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Sep 04, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 28, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 29, 2004 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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