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National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People

National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People

1910 –

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NAACP Youth Rally

NAACP event, c. 1960s?

NAACP group portrait, c. 1940s.

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Title National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People
Coverage 1910 –
Author Peter F. Lau
Keywords formally founded in 1910 by a group of progressive white northerners and prominent African American leaders, most notable of whom was the Harvard University–trained intellectual, W. E. B. Du Bois, battled to destroy Jim Crow and led the fight for black voting rights, equality, and respect in the Palmetto State, Levi G. Byrd, began efforts to organize a State Conference of NAACP branches, Briggs v. Elliott, one of five cases, and the only one from the Deep South, included in the Brown ruling, ongoing campaign for racial justice
Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
URL https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/national-assocation-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people/view/images
Access Date December 4, 2024
Original Published Date June 8, 2016
Date of Last Update August 16, 2022

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