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NAACP "How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began"

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.130.02 Author/Creator: NAACP Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 1954 Pagination: 10 p. ; 22.7 x 15.2 cm.

Summary of Content: One printing entitled, "How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began," written by Mary White Ovington dated 1954. Details the first months of the NAACP, recounting persons intially involved such as William English Walling, W.E.B. du Bois, among others. Last page contains a list of the NAACP officers and board of directors for the year 1954.

People: Mitchell, Clarence Jr., 1911-1984
Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985
Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951
Randolph, A. Phillip, 1889-1979
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett)., 1878-1971
White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963

Historical Era: 1945 to the Present

Subjects: ActivismAfrican American HistoryAfrican AmericansGovernment and CivicsLegislationOrganizationsRace discriminationReligionSegregation

Sub Era: The Fifties

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