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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

founded 1909
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Founded in 1909, NAACP is a civil rights organization to promote justice for African Americans through grassroots activism and litigation. Leaders associated with it include W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells and Thurgood Marshall.
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