NAACP
Equality advocacy group
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the oldest and largest American civil rights organization, founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination and advance political, educational, and economic equality for Black Americans.
The organization has been central to legal challenges against segregation and voting restrictions: The NAACP filed suit against the school district.
Signing up for elections
- protest marchGroup walk expressing opposition
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- petitionFormal written appeal
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
advocacy · grassroots organizing · sit-in · demonstration · picketing · nonviolent resistance · awareness campaign · voter education
Racial separation laws
- Great MigrationVast collective relocation
- segregationForced separation by group
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
- freedom struggleEffort to end oppression
Landmark desegregation decision
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- school integrationEnding separated education
- Voting Rights ActLaw against electoral discrimination
- Civil Rights ActLaw prohibiting discrimination
fair housing · Supreme Court · class action · landmark case · equal protection · anti-discrimination · court ruling · legal strategy
Geographically organized subsidiary groups
- membershipState of belonging
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
- presidentElected leader of nation
- executive directorHead of nonprofit organization
W.E.B. Du Bois
voter registration
Signing up for elections
- protest marchGroup walk expressing opposition
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- petitionFormal written appeal
lobbying · advocacy · grassroots organizing · sit-in · demonstration · picketing · nonviolent resistance · awareness campaign · voter education
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- Great MigrationVast collective relocation
- segregationForced separation by group
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
Brown v. Board of Education
Landmark desegregation decision
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- school integrationEnding separated education
- Voting Rights ActLaw against electoral discrimination
Civil Rights Act · fair housing · Supreme Court · class action · landmark case · equal protection · anti-discrimination · court ruling · legal strategy · constitutional rights
local chapters
Geographically organized subsidiary groups
- membershipState of belonging
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
- presidentElected leader of nation
executive director · annual conference · youth council · branch · education fund
- Black CultureHBCUs, Black churches, civil rights movement, Harlem Renaissance, Black History Month
- American MovementsFreedom Riders, Sons of Liberty, Underground Railroad, Wobblies, Beat Generation
- abbreviationsMr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Jr
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- nonprofitscharity shop, charity organizations, nonprofit, nonprofits, charities
- Black AmericaBlack churches, civil rights activism, Jim Crow, racial justice, HBCUs