Happy 100th Birthday NAACP

[kwassa]

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Thurgood Marshall and the Little Rock 9



NAACP legal defense team



Rosa Parks



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People

excerpt:

The Race Riot of 1908 in Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois, the previous summer had highlighted the urgent need for an effective civil rights organization in the U.S. This event is often cited as the catalyst for the formation of the NAACP.

The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a diverse group composed of W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling (the last the son of a former slaveholding family).<7><8>

On May 30, 1909, the Niagara Movement conference took place at New York City's Henry Street Settlement House, from which an organization of more than 40 individuals emerged, calling itself the National Negro Committee. Du Bois played a key role in organizing the event and presided over the proceedings. Also in attendance was African-American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett. At its second conference on May 30, 1910, members chose as the organization's name the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and elected its first officers

[Blue_Tires]

1. k+r

[kwassa]

2. kick

[Tesha]

3. Rec #5! Abraham Lincoln, 200 years today. NAACP, 100 years today. No coincidence! (NT)

[malaise]

4. K & R

Good post.

[bliss_eternal]

5. Such gorgeous photos...!

Thank you for this, kwassa!

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Happy Birthday, NAACP! Thank you for all you've done!
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[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[noiretextatique]

7. HAPPY 100, NAACP!!!!

:toast: to one of the most important organizations in US history

[bliss_eternal]

8. Kicking...

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[Pastiche423]

9. K&R!

[Brewman_Jax]

10. K&R

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[kwassa]

11. I met Rosa Parks once ...

very tiny woman, and very sweet. She visited a church I was attending in Los Angeles the day before the MLK holiday. We all crowded around, of course.

Happy 100th, NAACP!

[HamdenRice]

12. Happy Birthday NAACP! Thanks for transforming my life and the lives of my family! nt

[underpants]

13. Indeed Happy Birthday

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[kwassa]

14. kick!

[roguevalley]

15. join them. they do good work. :)

[bliss_eternal]

16. Kick...

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