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Naacp Failure

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Imagine never being allowed to go to school, eat at a restaurant or even use the bathroom. This was what countless African Americans were prevented to do on a daily basis. For many years, this type of racism was common in the United States. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP aimed to rid the nation of that racism. The establishing of the NAACP illustrates the intention of this organization. The NAACP underwent countless lawsuits to transform into what they are today. However, this association has failed a very important campaign, which was to end lynching once and for all. To further understand the NAACP, one must first learn about its founding, numerous trials, and one of its more important campaigns. …show more content…

As it states in “NAACP Formed, 1908”, “The event which precipitated the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was a bloody race riot in Springfield, Illinois, in August, 1908,” this left two lynched and more than 50 dead or injured, also around 2000 blacks left the area (“NAACP”). In response of this riot, journalist William English Walling, civil rights activist Mary White Ovington, and labor reformer Dr. Henry Moskowitz held “A Conference on the Status of the Negro” on May 31 and June 1, 1909 in New York City, to discuss African American rights; around 300 people attended and 60 prominent people signed the “Call”, which meant that they would help eliminate racism. They were originally known as the “National Committee for the Advancement of the Negro,” finally on May 14, 1910 they started to be called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (“NAACP”, “ National”). The building that they were originally set up in was the New York Evening Post, where W.E.B. Du Bois created the official NAACP magazine, The Crisis in order to show dangers manifested toward colored people; their first issue was printed in November 1910 (Harris 27-29, “NAACP”). The NAACP formed to pursue civil, legal, educational, and political rights; they pursued this goal through political turmoil and prosecution (“National”). This organization stood for equality throughout the United States of

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