NAACP Historical Time Line by Delilah Rice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2017-11-09 21:05:44 UTC 2025-10-27 14:56:03 UTC hello@padlet.com 1909 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207903695 1909: Founded by, was by Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett etc.  ]]> 2017-11-16 20:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207903695 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207903989 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.”]]> 2017-11-16 20:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207903989 1910 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207905903 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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207905903 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207906869 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)

]]> 2017-11-16 21:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207906869 1911 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207907302 1911: The Crisis, the official monthly news publication of the organization, is established.]]> 2017-11-16 21:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207907302 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207907856 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]]> 2017-11-16 21:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207907856 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207907983 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'.]]> 2017-11-16 21:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207907983 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908151
'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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908151 1918 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908245 1919: The pamphlet, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1898-1918 is published.]]> 2017-11-16 21:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908245 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908646 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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908646 1920s-1930s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908805 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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207908805 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207909033  The NAACP provided legal, financial, and moral support in the Great Depression of the 1920's and 1930s]]> 2017-11-16 21:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207909033 1940s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207909595 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]]> 2017-11-16 21:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207909595 1941 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207909821 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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207909821 more of the 1940s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910303 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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910303 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910543 That same year, Truman signed Executive Order 9981 which desegregated the United States Armed Services]]> 2017-11-16 21:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910543 1950s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910633 1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional


]]> 2017-11-16 21:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910633 1957: The president of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP Branches, Daisy Bates, leads the fight todesegregate Arkansas schools. delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910940 2017-11-16 21:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207910940 1960s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911178 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
]]> 2017-11-16 21:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911178 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911399 NAACP lobbying led to passing of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.]]> 2017-11-16 21:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911399 1980s-1990s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911576 The 1989 Silent March protesting against U.S. Supreme Court decisions reversing many of the gains made against discrimination]]> 2017-11-16 21:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911576 NAACP launched the Economic Reciprocity Program initiating the "Stop The Violence, Start the Love' campaign. delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911894 2017-11-16 21:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207911894 2000s delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207912145  The NAACP joins a class action lawsuit against the state of Florida in 2001 alleging voter irregularities in the 2000 presidential election.]]> 2017-11-16 21:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207912145 delilahrice https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207912400 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.]]> 2017-11-16 21:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/delilahrice/rp6z5c06islv/wish/207912400