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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization 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, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, Emil G. Hirsch and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.
Little Rock Nine
Politic crisis about a group of nine African Americans who attended a previously all-white school in 1957
Niagara Movement
civil rights organization
Spingarn Medal
award for the highest achievement of an American of African descent
The Crisis
official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Silent Parade
1917 protest in New York City