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The '''NAACP''' (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded in 1909 to work for the rights and advancement of [[African Americans]] (then called "Colored"). The organization's first head, [[W.E.B. DuBois]], was awarded the [[Lenin Peace Prize]]<ref>The Lenin Peace Prize is named for [[mass murder]]er [http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm#part4] [[Vladimir Lenin]], founder of the Soviet state.</ref> in 1959, and the organization ended up liberal.
The '''NAACP''' (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 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; today it has 300,000 members in local chapters around the country. It supported the end of [[Jim Crow]] and [[segregation]] in the 1960s, and more recently supports [[affirmative action]].
The organization's first head, [[W.E.B. DuBois]], was awarded the [[Lenin Peace Prize]]<ref>The Lenin Peace Prize is named for [[mass murder]]er [http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm#part4] [[Vladimir Lenin]], founder of the Soviet state.</ref> in 1959, and the organization ended up liberal.
The NAACP has always been the largest organization of its kind; today it has 300,000 members in local chapters around the country.
It supported the end of [[Jim Crow]] and [[segregation]] in the 1960s. More recently, it supports "[[affirmative action]]".
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund was involved in the famous [[Brown vs. Board of Education]] case in 1954 in which the Supreme Court declared segregated schools were illegal.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund was involved in the famous [[Brown vs. Board of Education]] case in 1954 in which the Supreme Court declared segregated schools were illegal.