NAACP


 * NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
 * Founded 1909 by  W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moskowitz, William English Walling Villard, & Charles Edward Russell.
 * the NAACP’s stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law and universal adult male suffrage, respectively.
 * The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes.
 * Established its national office in New York City in 1910 and named a board of directors as well as a president, Moorfield Storey, a white constitutional lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association.
 * By 1913 the NAACP had branch offices in cities as Boston, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; Kansas City, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; Detroit, Michigan; and St. Louis, Missouri.