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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.
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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
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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.
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This report recorded that 3,224 people were lynched during that period. Of these, 702 were white and 2,522 black.
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The NAACP provided legal, financial, and moral support in the 1930s, when the Scottsboro Boys were unfairly convicted.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sues the government to make them pay black and white teachers equal salaries.
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The NAACP pressured President Truman to sign an Executive Order banning discrimination by the Federal government.
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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.
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Rosa Parks is arrested and fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
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The NAACP field worker is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
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The orginization was able to prevent President Reagan from giving a tax-break to the racially segregated Bob Jones University.
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100 Year anniversary of the founding of the NAACP.
