The National Association for the Advancement off Colored People ( national association for the advance of the coloured persons ), in general indicated by its initials NAACP , is an American organization which was founded in 1909 starting from the the Niagara movement , which had been created in 1905 by William Edward Burghard Dubois.

With its creation, it gathered personalities white like Mary White Ovington, Joel and Arthur Spingarn and black like James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Dubois, who directed his newspaper “The Crisis”.

The NAACP played a big role in the success of the movement of the civic rights and its successes of the years 1950 and 1960. It is in particular its action in front of the courts, under the direction of its lawyers Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall which leads to the great stop Brown v. Board off Education of the Supreme court of the United States in 1954, declaring the racial segregation illegal in the field of education. Nowadays, the objectives of association, are the fight against racism and discriminations in all the fields of the social life, economic and political.

See too

• Movement of the civic rights to the United States

External bond

• www.naacp.org