Glossary
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | | The nation’s largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 following the Niagra Movement, W.E.B. DuBois and a group of concerned whites committed to social justice. The NAACP has been instrumental in exposing and removing political, social, educational, and economic barriers created by racial discrimination. Much of the organization’s success has occurred in the legal arena with cases such as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The 1954 Supreme Court decision followed a long effort by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund to end school desegregation. |
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