National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Organization

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1909-

Biography

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the United States. It was established in 1909 to protect, empower, and advance justice for African Americans.

Citation:

LC data base, 1/2/90(hdg.: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; usage: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; NAACP; N.A.A.C.P.)

Beyond the Rodney King Story, c1994:CIP t.p. verso (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) galley (NAACP is nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was created in 1909 to empower and protect African Americans under the constitution through principles of equal justice under the law)

Wikipedia, Aug. 31, 2009(Niagara Movement; black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter; in 1911 membership of the Niagara Movement joined with a number of white liberals to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP))

Email from MaU, Sept. 1, 2009(Although it is historically accurate to say that the NAACP and the Niagara Movement shared membership, they are generally recognized as being 2 distinct organizations)

Its website, June 19, 2014 home page (NAACP; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) history (founded Feb. 12, 1909) contact (National Headquarters, 4805 Mt. Hope Drive, Baltimore MD 21215) - http://www.naacp.org/

Wikipedia, 8 Sept. 2020:in an entry for NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells; its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP

Lepore, J. These truths, ©2018:page 371 (In 1909, in New York, Du Bois helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the next year began editing its monthly magazine, The Crisis)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Grace Soelberg papers on the Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 9652

Scope and Contents Collection contains materials collected by Grace Ann Soelberg as part of her participation in the Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana, including trip itineraries, printed email correspondence, handouts, and guidelines. It also includes two publications, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870" by W.E.B. Du Bois, and "A Smart Ghana Repatriation Guide" by Diallo Sumbry. Also contains artifacts Grace obtained in Ghana, including two kente...

Dates: 2022

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections