ABOUT

What is the NAACP?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1090 by a group of black and white citizens in response to the injustices and disfranchisement of millions of Americans confronted because of race. Today the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the world, continues to focus major efforts at increasing vouter empowerment, education excellence and individual responsibility, creating an infrastructure for economic and social development and new effective ways to develop young leaders.

The Mission

The mission of the NAACP is to insure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

Principle Objectives of the NAACP

1. To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens

2. To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States

3. To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes

4. To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights

5. To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination

6. To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives.

NAACP Founders

• Dr. Henry Moskowity

• William English Walling

• Oswald Garrison Villard

• Mary White Ovington

• James Weldon Johnson (1st Black Secretary) NAACP Board of Directors

• William E.B.DuBois, Founder of The Crisis Magazine