NAACP

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The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is a historic U.S. civil rights organization founded in 1909 that has led legal challenges and advocacy efforts against racial discrimination and segregation.

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instanceOf advocacy organization
civil rights organization
nonprofit organization
country United States
fieldOfWork civil rights law
economic justice
education and youth programs
health equity
public policy advocacy
voter mobilization
formerHeadquartersLocation New York City
founded 1909
founder Archibald Grimké
Charles Edward Russell
Florence Kelley
Henry Moskowitz
Ida B. Wells
Mary Church Terrell
Mary White Ovington
Moorfield Storey
Oswald Garrison Villard
W. E. B. Du Bois
William English Walling
foundingLocation New York City
fullName National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
linked to: NAACP
hasOrganizationalStructure local branches
national board of directors
state conferences
hasPart NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (historical legal arm, now separate)
headquartersLocation Baltimore, Maryland
linked to: Baltimore
ideology civil rights movement
racial equality
keyPerson Benjamin Hooks
Derrick Johnson
Kweisi Mfume
Roy Wilkins
Thurgood Marshall
W. E. B. Du Bois
membership mass membership organization
motto “Ensuring the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating race-based discrimination”
notableWork Brown v. Board of Education legal strategy
anti-lynching campaigns
criminal justice reform advocacy
desegregation litigation
employment discrimination cases
housing discrimination cases
legal challenges to Jim Crow laws
support for Civil Rights Act of 1964
support for Voting Rights Act of 1965
voting rights advocacy
positionHeld President and CEO: Derrick Johnson
predecessor Niagara Movement
purpose advocacy for civil rights
elimination of racial discrimination
elimination of segregation
protection of political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights
separatedFrom NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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Thurgood Marshall employer NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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Jim Crow laws opposedBy NAACP
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund foundedBy National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund separatedFrom National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Spingarn Medal sponsor NAACP
Spingarn Medal awardingBody National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Spingarn Medal awardedBy NAACP Board of Directors
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Congress of Racial Equality collaboratedWith National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP fullName National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Freedom Summer hasOrganizer National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Smith v. Allwright litigationSupport National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Albany Movement foundedBy National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP Image Award presentedBy National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP Image Award organizer NAACP Hollywood Bureau
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Ralph Bunche memberOf NAACP
Rosa Parks memberOf NAACP
Medgar Evers employer NAACP
Ella Baker memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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James Farmer memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Roy Wilkins memberOf NAACP
Roy Wilkins employer NAACP
Whitney Young memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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W. E. B. Du Bois coFounded National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Daisy Bates memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund foundedBy National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Julian Bond chairpersonOf NAACP
Julian Bond memberOf NAACP
Madam C. J. Walker supportedOrganization National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Joel Elias Spingarn memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Spingarn Medal awardedBy National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
subject linked to: Joel Elias Spingarn
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Arthur B. Spingarn memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
subject linked to: Joel Elias Spingarn
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Elizabeth Eckford associatedWith National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Cecilia Suyat Marshall memberOf National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Cecilia Suyat Marshall employer National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Cecilia Suyat Marshall workedAt NAACP national office in New York
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