Tuesday, January 29, 2013

NAACP


 The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People was founded in February 12, 1909. the organization was created after a race riot in Springfield, Illinois 1908. it was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois, , Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz, Oswald Garrison Villiard and William English  Walling.They believed that this organization would help the blacks and take them to another level.The way it was actually started was a white female name  Mary White Ovington was reading an article written by William English Walling and the article was about what happened in Illinois, so she shared with the rest of the them and they have decided to create this organization.After all these situations they sent out a letter "call" to everyone that thought this organization would be helpful for the black people.The NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization.

I believe the most important ideas were how they agree into this idea even though they was not sure it would work. All the founders were white except W. E. B. Du Bois who was black. It was a hard decision to make because they never knew what they would face and how it was going to work out . the most important decision is how they all worked together since they got different cultures and backgrounds. the value of this subject is the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. They all made the right decision and that's why their names are remember today.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/404433/National-Association-for-the-Advancement-of-Colored-People-NAACP




9 comments:

  1. I also like how the organizers of the NAACP didn't know that it was going to work out but went for it any way. I didn't know that the NAACP is America oldest and largest grass roots organization.

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  3. I think it was interesting how this group was formed. Also with the founders mostly of the white race was surprising to me since the organization was The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People!

    Emily

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  4. good work abdi. whit people at that time forming such kind a organizatio to help blacks? very interesting

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  5. I also liked the fact that most of the people that founded this advancement were white, and there was only one black person, W.E.B. Du Bois.

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  6. Unity. People were fighting to have it then and frankly they still fight it now, just for different reasons.

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  7. I also find it interesting and surprising that the white people formed a group to help the colored. Shows that not everyone was bad and so violent.

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  8. didnt know it was first organization. and one of oldest and it still works today. good work

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