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The '''NAACP''' (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is an organization that was founded in 1909 to work for the rights and advancement of [[African Americans]] (then called "Colored"). The NAACP is the largest organization of its kind with 400,000 members.{{fact}} Through its history, the organization saw a number of changes occur for the group it represented, from the removal of [[Jim Crow]] laws, to the end of [[segregation]], and to the implementation of [[affirmative action]].
The '''NAACP''' (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is a liberal organization that was founded in 1909 to work for the rights and advancement of [[African Americans]] (then called "Colored").
The NAACP has always been the largest organization of its kind; troday it has 300,000 members in local chgapters around the country. It supported the end of [[Jim Crow]] and [[segregation]] in the 1960s, and to the implementation of [[affirmative action]].
In recent decades it has been torn by internal strife and plays a minor role in national affairs.
==Further reading==
* Jonas, Gilbert S. ''Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909-1969'' (2005). 240 pp.
* Verney, Kevern and Lee Sartain, eds. ''Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP'' (2009), 16 essays by scholars
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