NAACP

By Brittney Miller __**  In 1908 the NAACP was formed to help create equality throughout the black and white communities, and still exists for the same purpose. It is the oldest civil rights organization and had the most impact during the civil rights movement. By the 1960s during the civil rights movements the NAACP had thousands of people involved in this organization for racial equality, and even included Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King as just a few of the members of this group. __ (this picutre was taken at a meeting when W.E.B. DuBois came for a visit) __  __ **Key players in the begging-** __    Ida Wells-Barnett(1), W.E.B. DuBois(1), Henry Moscowitz, Oswald Garrison Villiard, William English Walling led the "Call" to renew the struggle for civil and political liberty. All of these people majorly helped make as one of the biggest civil rights organizations of our time ·  W.E.B. DuBois was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, and editor. He was one of the leading founders that was a significant help to the progress of this group ·       Ida Wells-Barnett- In 1909, Barnett was asked to be a member of the "Committee of 40," which established the groundwork for the organization now known as the NAACP. She was know for her crusade against lynching, but she died before the civil rights movement.
 * __ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)



This is one of the many protests against lynching that the NAACP was involved in.



This is the national symbol for the NAACP. **Costs**- A small step that the NAACP helped happen was the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, and ultimately lead to African Americans being able to got to school with Caucasian Americans. An African American by the name of Rosa Parks, a member got on a bus one day and was ultimately arrested for not giving up her seat. This one arrested let the NAACP take a huge step forward in creating equality, with the help of many people during the bus boycott. From this African Americans were able to ride the bus without segregation. By 1965, the [|Voting Rights Act] was passed, and NAACP persuaded more than 80,000 African Americans in Mississippi to register their right to vote, and this gave a lot of people hope that there might be total equality some day. Influence of the Civil Rights Movement **- during the Civil rights movement NAACP was a tremendous key player. This group led the bus boycott, brown vs. board of education and funded events during the civil rights movement. Without this group of people supporting the civil rights movement it would have been a long struggle for equality. ** Time line of key events ** 1909 : W.E.B. Du Bois and other prominent activists found what would later become the [|National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]. 1935 : NAACP lawyers Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall win a case against the University of Maryland, forcing it to admit a black student. 1945 : Houston wins a civil suit against the [|Enoch Pratt Free Library] over its refusal to admit a black woman, Louise Kerr, to a training program. 1954 : Marshall and other NAACP lawyers end the "separate but equal" doctrine in public schools with their victory in Brown v. Board of Education, one of [|the U.S. Supreme Court] 's most celebrated decisions. 1955 : NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a segregated bus in [|Montgomery], Ala. Her arrest helps galvanize the civil rights movement. 1960 : Members of the NAACP Youth Council begin a series of sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, N.C. Their efforts lead to the desegregation of more than 60 stores. 1965 : NAACP lobbyist Clarence Mitchell Jr. helps ensure passage of the Voting Rights Act, leading to widespread registration of black voters in the South _ This is one of the posters that the NAACP wanted people to stop buying Wiedemann beer because the company wouldn’t employ African Americans. This is just one of their boycotts that they were responsible for creating.
 * Long term gains** - the biggest long term gain of this entire group was that African Americans finally got the right to vote and was able to live as equals to Caucasian Americans. Thought America is still awaiting the day that there will be no racial equality this group is still working today for the civil rights of African Americans, in the biased society that we live in today. Today, the NAACP is governed nationally by a 64-member board of directors and as of 2004; the NAACP had approximately 500,000 members.
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 * List of only a few people that were members of NAACP(click liks for addtional info. on individuals) **
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|| Other Protests Pictures
 * [|Hugh J. Addonizio] <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Mayor of Newark, 1962-70 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Reuben V. Anderson]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Attorney ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Partner, Phelps Dunbar <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Dennis Archer]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Mayor of Detroit, 1994-2001 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Mario L. Baeza]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Business ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Baeza & Co. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Frank Ballance]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman from North Carolina, 2003-04 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Andrew C. Barrett]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Government ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">FCC Commissioner, 1989-96 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Marion Barry]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Crack-smoking ex-mayor of Washington, DC <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman, Georgia 2nd <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Kenneth Blackwell]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Government ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Ohio Secretary of State, 1999-2007 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Richard Blumenthal]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Government ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Attorney General of Connecticut <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|W. E. B. Du Bois]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Activist ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Civil rights activist <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Julian Bond]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Activist ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">NAACP Chairman <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Barbara L. Bowles]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Business ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">The Kenwood Group <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Kay Boyle]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Author ||  || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">The Underground Woman //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Sophonisba Breckinridge]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Activist ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Suffragette and abolitionist <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Gwendolyn Brooks]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Poet ||  || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Annie Allen //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Heywood Broun]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Journalist ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Roland W. Burris]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">US Senator from Illinois <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Louis B. Butler, Jr.]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Judge ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Bob Carr]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman from Michigan, 1975-95 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Linda Chavez]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Activist ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Neoconservative activist, pundit <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Erwin Chemerinsky]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Scholar ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Legal Scholar <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Shirley Chisholm]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">First black woman elected to US House <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Jim Clyburn]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman, South Carolina 6th <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|William K. Coblentz]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Attorney ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|William T. Coleman, Jr.]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Government ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Cardiss Collins]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congresswoman from Illinois, 1973-97 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|John Conyers]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman, Michigan 14th <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Richard Cardinal Cushing]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Religion ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Catholic Archbishop of Boston, 1944-70 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Hal Daub]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Mayor of Omaha, 1995-2001 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Danny Davis]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman, Illinois 7th <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Ossie Davis]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Actor ||  || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Do The Right Thing //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Drew S. Days III]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Government ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">US Solicitor General, 1993-96 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Ruby Dee]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Actor ||  || //<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">The Jackie Robinson Story //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||
 * [|Julian C. Dixon]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> || Politician ||  || <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Congressman from California, 1979-2000 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> ||   ||

This was a silent non violent protest that consisted of children in a church group.




 * This is a march supporting NAACP during the civil rights movement. ||