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NAACP Founded
W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell, Oswald Garrison Villard, Joel and Arthur Spingarn, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Inez, Milholland, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge, John Haynes Holmes, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Lillian Wald, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, and Fanny Garrison Villard were the founding members. -
First Officers Elected
National President, Moorfield Storey, Boston
Chairman of the Executive Committee, William English Walling
Treasurer, John E. Milholland
Disbursing Treasurer, Oswald Garrison Villard
Executive Secretary, Frances Blascoer
Director of Publicity and Research, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. -
Guinn V. United States
NAACP plays a role in the win against thie discriminatory grandfathering rule allowing whites to be exempt to rules that restricted certain black citizens from voting. -
Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918 published
This report recorded that 3,224 people were lynched during that period. Of these, 702 were white and 2,522 black. -
Smart and Safe
The NAACP provided legal, financial, and moral support in the 1930s, when the Scottsboro Boys were unfairly convicted. -
NAACP Sues Government
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sues the government to make them pay black and white teachers equal salaries. -
Executive order 9981
The NAACP pressured President Truman to sign an Executive Order banning discrimination by the Federal government. -
Equal Education
The Supreme Court rules in Brown vs. the Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is a violation of the Equal Protections Act of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks is arrested and fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus. -
Medgar Evers Assasinated
The NAACP field worker is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
Voting Rights Act Passed
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Bob Jones University Denied Tax Exempt Status.
The orginization was able to prevent President Reagan from giving a tax-break to the racially segregated Bob Jones University. -
NAACP Celebrates 100 Years
100 Year anniversary of the founding of the NAACP.
