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In 2010 Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States and for the first time, an African American was elected to the most important position in the land.

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The NAACP joins a class action lawsuit against the state of Florida in 2001 alleging voter irregularities in the 2000 presidential election.

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NAACP launched the Economic Reciprocity Program  initiating the "Stop The Violence, Start the Love' campaign.

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NAACP launched the Economic Reciprocity Program  initiating the "Stop The Violence, Start the Love' campaign.

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The 1989 Silent March protesting against U.S. Supreme Court decisions reversing many of the gains made against discrimination

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NAACP lobbying led to passing of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.

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1964: NAACP political lobbying led to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

NAACP political lobbying led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act

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1957: The president of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP Branches, Daisy Bates, leads the fight todesegregate Arkansas schools.

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1957: The president of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP Branches, Daisy Bates, leads the fight todesegregate Arkansas schools.

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1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional

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That same year, Truman signed Executive Order 9981 which desegregated the United States Armed Services

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1948: President Truman worked with the NAACP to develop a commission to study and offer ideas to improve civil rights issues in the United States.

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1941: During World War II the NAACP renewed efforts to end discrimination in the military. The Air Force began training black pilots in 1941 at a segregated base at Tuskegee Institute.

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1940: The NAACP created separate legal arm in 1940 called the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Thurgood Marshall was appointed as its director-counsel

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The NAACP provided legal, financial, and moral support in the Great Depression of the 1920's and 1930s

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The  Supreme Court ruled in Moore v. Dempsey (1923) that exclusion of African Americans from a jury was inconsistent with the right to a fair trial.

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The report is used to appeal to lawmakers to end the social, political and economic terrorism associated with lynching. a number of race riots erupted in cities throughout the United States.

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1919: The pamphlet, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1898-1918 is published.

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'Birth of a Nation' perpetuates demeaning stereotypes of African Americans and glorified the Ku Klux Klan.The NAACP Protest Against The Birth of a Nation." Du Bois reviewed the film in The Crisis and condemned its glorification of racist propaganda.

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1915: The NAACP organization learned to harness the power of publicity through its 1915 battle against D. W. Griffith's inflammatory movie 'Birth of a Nation'.

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This monthly news magazine would feature events and issues impacting African-Americans throughout the United States. During the Harlem Renaissance, many writers published short stories, novel excerpts and poems in its pages

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The Crisis, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor)

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The National Negro Conference was held on May 31 - June 1, 1910 in New York City. W.E.B DuBois is selected as the director of publications and research.

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With more than 500,000 members,the NAACP works locally and nationally to “to “ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality for all, and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.”

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1909: Founded by, was by Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett etc.

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1911: The Crisis, the official monthly news publication of the organization, is established.