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HISTORY OF THE NAACP

OUR
STORY
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was established in 1909 and is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was formed in New York City by white and black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country. In the NAACP’s early decades, its anti-lynching campaign was central to its agenda. During the civil rights era in the 1950s and 1960s, the group won major legal victories, and today the NAACP has more than 2,200 branches and some half a million members worldwide.

OUR
MISSION
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The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

OUR VISION.

Our vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.

"Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

- Michelle Obama -

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