The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people.
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Date founded:
- Feb 12, 1909
Founders:
- Ida B. Wells ,
- W.E.B. Du Bois ,
- Henry Moskowitz ,
- Archibald Grimke ,
- Oswald Garrison Villard ,
- Mary White Ovington ,
- William English Walling
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Also known as:
- NAACP
