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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or in AACP interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation, to oppose racism, and to ensure African Americans
their constitutional rights. The NAACP was created in nineteen oh nine by an interracial group considering A. W. E. B. Duois, Ida Belle Wells, Ida Bell Wells Bennett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the nineteen oh eight Springfield race Riot. Of the founding members had been associated with the Niagara Movement,
a civil rights group led by Dubois. In nineteen ten, the NAACP began publishing a quarterly magazine called The Crisis. For its first twenty four years, it was edited by Dubois. Many of the NAACP's actions have focused on national issues. For example, the group helped persuade US President Woodrow Wilson to denounce lynching in nineteen eighteen. Other areas of that's crazy President wood Wilson to denounce lynching. That's crazy, that that was the thing that we needed to have done
once upon a time. Other areas of activism have involved political action to secure enactment of civil rights laws, programs of education and public information to win popular support, and direct action to achieve specific goals. In nineteen thirty nine, the NAACP established as an independent legal arm for the civil rights movement, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which litigated to the Supreme Court Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, the case that resulted in the High
Court's landmark nineteen fifty four school desegregation decision. The organization had also won a significant victory in nineteen forty six with Morgan b. Virginia, which successfully barred segregation in interstate travel, setting the stage for the Freedom Writers nineteen sixty one. The murder of NAACP Field director Medgar Evers in nineteen sixty three gave the group national prominence, likely contributing to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five.
In the nineteen eighties, the NAACP publicized opposition to apartheid policies in South Africa. The organization moved its headquarters from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland, in nineteen eighty six. It also operates a bureau in Washington, d c. And has branch offices in dozens of cities across the United States.
At the turn of the twenty first century, the NAACP sponsored campaigns against youth ba islands and encouraged economic enterprise among African Americans and led voter drives to increase participation in the political process. So that's a quick backstory of the inn AACP or NUBACP, as you may have heard. And this is not the only group. I remember when we talked about this. Once upon a time, there was a group of learned individuals, Jewish folks, Black folks. A
bunch of people sat down and created the NAACP. There are other civil rights organizations. Think the Urban League, Think the National Council for Negro Women. That's a pretty good list. There and they're all worth your exploration. So for some homework today, go and find out who these organizations are and if they're in your community, and find out how you can participate and perhaps get back