The NAACP

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NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
ADVANCEMENT
FOR THE
OF
COLORED PEOPLE
BY CADET ZENDEJAS
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Why They started it?

• In September 1908, Mary Ovington, now working for
  the New York Post, read an article by William
  English Walling, entitled Race War in the North,
  that described the atrocities being carried out
  against African-Americans. Walling ended the
  article by calling for "a powerful body of
  citizens to come to their aid."

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The outcome.

• Ovington responded to the article by writing
  to Walling and at a meeting in New York they
  decided to form the National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The first
  meeting of the NAACP was held on 12th February,
  1909.

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The Crisis

• The NAACP started its own magazine, Crisis, in
  November, 1910. The magazine was edited by
  William Du Boise and contributors to the first
  issue included Oswald Garrison Villard and
  Charles Edward Russell. The magazine soon built
  up a large readership amongst black people and
  white sympathizers. By 1919 Crisis was selling
  100,000 copies a month.

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NAACP Sit ins

• The NAACP used many methods to get heard.The
  most efficient was the sit ins. Blacks would sit
  at a white only counter at a restaurant. They
  would be kicked out or even beat up and thrown
  out, without even fighting back.

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Other Achievements

• After Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of
  the bus the NAACP started the boycott of
  Montgomery Alabama. It lasted about thirteen
  months. Most of the people who rode the bus were
  black. 17,000 black people in the Montgomery area
  stopped riding the bus, which led to the
  Montgomery Bus Company to lose tons of revenue,
  and non segregated seating was taken away.

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Other Achievements Cont.

• With the help of the NAACP and President Lyndon
  B. Johnson, they got the voting act passed by a
  huge majority in both the house and congress. It
  then gave the black population the right to vote.

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THE END
THE END
BY
ZENDEJAS