The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights activist group that W. E. B. Du Bois helped found in 1909. Its political stances are often assimilationist.
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Chapter 18: The Mission Is in the Name
...York in 1916, he immediately visited the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). W. E. B. Du Bois and Oswald Garrison Villard, William Lloyd Garrison’s grandson, founded the...
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Chapter 19: Can’t Sing and Dance and Write It Away
When the NAACP’s new leaders pushed even harder for uplift suasion, Du Bois finally decided to quit. He...
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