NAACP

__**NAACP**__
**The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This was mostly created because of a group that started around the 1920's. That group is the Ku Klux Klan. It is still going on to this day. The Ku Klux Klan is all whites who kill those who are colored or a different culture. The NAACP is the oldest and most influencial civil rights group that respect corlored people. It is the last group the uses the term of colored people. This group was founded in 1909 by a man by the name of W.E.B Du Bois.**

**Congress did not allow the group to legilize the help of African Americans fight against discrimination. The NAACP played a major role in ending segregation in the 20th century. During that time, the Ku Klux Klan were against colored people. This group has murdered around 50,000 people during there time. This still goes on today. Du Bois wasn't the only one in charge of the NAACP at the time. Joel Spingarn, one of the NAACP founders, was a professor of literature and formulated much of the strategy that led to the growth of the organization. He was elected board chairman of the NAACP in 1915 and served as president from 1929-1939.**

**NAACP membership grew rapidly, from around 9,000 in 1917 to around 90,000 in 1919, with more than 300 local branches. Writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson became the Association's first black secretary in 1920, and Louis T. Wright, a surgeon, was named the first black chairman of its board of directors in 1934.The NAACP waged a 30-year campaign against lynching, among the Association's top priorities. After early worries about its constitutionality, the NAACP strongly supported the federal Dyer Bill, which would have punished those who participated in or failed to prosecute lynch mobs. Though the bill would pass the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate never passed the bill, or any other anti-lynching legislation. Most credit the resulting public debate-fueled by the NAACP report "Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1919"-with drastically decreasing the incidence of lynching.**