NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (usually shortened to NAACP) is an organization in the United States for African-American civil rights, which was founded in 1909.

Formation and its Effects
In Springfield, Illinois, the Race Riot of 1908 established a desperate need for an effective organization pertaining to U.S. civil rights. In February 12, 1909, the NAACP was taken into consideration of being formed and it was formed. The formation took place in their first meeting.

The NAACP organization divides itself into regions: the headquarters are located in Baltimore, Maryland. The other regional offices are in California, New York, Michigan, Colorado, Georgia, Texas, and another part of Maryland. Each of the regional offices is responsible for the coordination of the state conferences in each region.

As of 2007, the NAACP consists of 425,000 members.

Effects on the Civil Rights Movement
The NAACP was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. The lawyers of NAACP won the case of Brown v. Board of Education, which meant that the government can not separate schools into black schools and white schools. The Freedom Riders were riding on multiple buses to register African Americans to vote. But, the Freedom Riders got arrested and there was a lot of protests and violence. The NAACP paid for the Freedom Riders' bails. The NAACP also pressured President Harry Truman into signing an Executive Order to ban discrimination by the federal government under all circumstances.

Sources Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People#Desegregation http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-legal-history