Transcript History of the NAACP

History of the NAACP
Objectives
• Explain the history of the NAACP
• Analyze and evaluate the constitutional
arguments for and against federal antilynching legislation in the 1920s
• Assess the significance of the failure of
Congress to enact anti-lynching legislation
and its impact on social justice in the United
States
Founding Group
• Mary White Ovington
• Oswald Garrison Villard
– Descendants of
abolitionists
– Appalled by the violence
in Springfield, IL and
lynching
• William English Walling
• Dr. Henry Moscowitz
– call for a meeting to
discuss racial justice
• Some 60 people, seven of
whom were African
American signed the call
Echoing the focus
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Du Bois' Niagara Movement
The NAACP's stated goal was
to secure for all people the
rights guaranteed in the 13th,
14th, and 15th Amendments to
the United States Constitution
– which promised an end to
slavery
– the equal protection of the
law
– and universal adult male
suffrage
Principle Objective
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To ensure the political, educational,
social and economic equality of
minority group citizens of United
States and eliminate race prejudice
The NAACP seeks to remove all
barriers of racial discrimination
through the democratic processes
The NAACP established its national
office in New York City in 1910
Named a board of directors as well
as a president, Moorfield Storey, a
white constitutional lawyer and
former president of the American
Bar Association
– The only African American
among the organization's
executives, Du Bois director of
publications and research and in
1910 established the official
journal of the NAACP, The Crisis
Anti-Lynching Legislation