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B y: Andreah Moran & Alicia Santiago NAACP The NAACP was founded in 1909 by Du Bois and other reformers. The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP played a major role in ending segregation in the 20th century. The NAACP is the nations' oldest and largest recognized civil rights organization. The NAACP is normally ran by 64 members.The National Association for the Advanement of Colored People tried to protect the constitutional rights of African Americans. Many Americans wanted segregation to end and tried many different things to stop it.  The NAACP was started by both white and colored people that wanted segregation to end. In 1916, the NAACP began to expand its membership in the South. Their leader was the field secretary James Weldon Johnson. The South was were the organization faced with the most fierce opposition. Rosa Parks,the well-known woman that is known for having talked against an order to give her seat up for a white person,was a member of the NAACP. Another well-known person that was a member of the NAACP was Martin Luther King Jr. The NAACP's headquarters are in Baltimore, Maryland.

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