Founders
Including figures like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells, this is the number of original founders of the NAACP in 1909.
What is 7?
This city is where NAACP was founded.
What is New York City?
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to
What is end segregation based on race?
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Who is Martin Luther King?
What is our Unit Number?
What is 5952-B?
Contrary to what some might assume, the founders of the NAACP in 1909 came from this kind of racial background.
What is Black and White?
NAACP stands for.
What is the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People?
In the spring of 1951, Black students in Virginia protested against unequal schools—one of five cases the NAACP would combine into this landmark Supreme Court case that struck down school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
When was Unit 5952-B chartered on (Month & Year)
October 2010
This former slave turned investigative journalist and co-founder of the NAACP exposed the horrors of lynching in works like Southern Horrors and The Red Record, and was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
This is the date NAACP was founded on
What is February 12, 1909
This NAACP field secretary and his wife were killed when their Florida home was bombed on Christmas night in 1951—a tragic act of racial terrorism that remains unsolved and highlighted the deadly risks faced by civil rights activists.
Who was Harry T. Moore?
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He is the current CEO and President of NAACP.
Who is Derrick Johnson?
A white progressive who, along with other white liberals, issued the call for the meeting that led to the NAACP's formation.
Who is Mary White Ovington?
The initial goal of NAACP was to stop this crime.
What is Lynching?
These 1961 journeys by civil rights activists tested the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, challenging segregation on interstate buses and in terminal facilities across the South.
What were the Freedom Rides?
“We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.”
Who is Malcolm X?
NAACP Mission Statement
What is "The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination."
This co-founder of the NAACP, author of The Souls of Black Folk, and proponent of the "Talented Tenth" spent his final years in Ghana and was a fierce critic of racism, capitalism, and the "Atlanta Compromise."
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
The name the NAACP was referred to before it was called the NAACP.
What is The National Negro Committee?
Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, this landmark legislation banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
"Racism is still with us, but it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet and hopefully we shall overcome."
Who is Rosa Parks?
NAACP Vision Statement
What is "The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race."