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The NAACP played a great role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. One of the organization’s key victories was the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools. -
the naacp was made in 1909 and is Americas oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was formed in New York City by white and Black activists partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans . -
In 1910 Oklahoma passed a constitutional amendment allowing people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote in 1866 to register without passing a literacy test. -
in 1915 the naacp called for a boycott of Birth of a Nation a movie that portrayed the Ku Klux Klan in a positive light and perpetrated racist stereotypes of african american people The NAACP campaign was largely unsuccessful but it helped raise the new group’s public profile. -
In 1917 some 10000 people in New York City participated in an NAACP organized silent march to protest lynchings and other violence against Black people The march was one of the first mass demonstrations in America against racial violence. -
The NAACP also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington one of the biggest civil rights rallies in U.S. history, and had a hand in running 1964 s Mississippi Freedom Summer an initiative to register Black Mississippians to vote
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Today, the NAACP is focused on such issues as inequality in jobs, education, health care and the criminal justice system, as well as protecting voting rights. The group also has pushed for the removal of Confederate flags and statues from public property.