which event led to the formation of the naacp?
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In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Such eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the creation of the NAACP.
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NAACP Director, Individual Giving. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a 501(C)(3) nonprofit and the nation's preeminent civil and human rights organization, seeks an entrepreneurial, results-oriented Director of Individual Giving.
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['Nov 6, 1860. The Election of 1860. ... ', 'Feb 1, 1861. Forming of the Confederate States. ... ', 'Apr 12, 1861. Firing on Fort Sumter. ... ', 'May 19, 1861. Battle of Sewells Point.', 'Jan 1, 1863. Emancipation Proclomation. ... ', 'May 18, 1863. Battle of Vicksburg. ... ', 'Jul 1, 1863. Battle of Gettysburg.', 'Nov 4, 1864. Shermans March.']
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By the mid-1960s, the NAACP had regained some of its preeminence in the Civil Rights Movement by pressing for civil rights legislation. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place on August 28, 1963. That fall President John F. Kennedy sent a civil rights bill to Congress before he was assassinated.
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"Glap" Glapion Jr., Zulu President from 1973–1988, started actively recruiting professionals, educators, and prominent businessmen and men from all racial and ethnic backgrounds to join Zulu's membership, making Zulu the first parading organization to actually parade racially integrated.
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In the NAACP's early decades, its anti-lynching campaign was central to its agenda. During the civil rights era in the 1950s and 1960s, the group won major legal victories, and today the NAACP has more than 2,200 branches and some half a million members worldwide.
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The Civil Rights Movement was an era dedicated to activism for equal rights and treatment of African Americans in the United States. During this period, people rallied for social, legal, political and cultural changes to prohibit discrimination and end segregation.
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It inspired bus boycotts in other cities, spreading the civil rights movement. B.) It increased African American discontent, which led to the creation of the NAACP. ... It promoted a woman, Rosa Parks, to a leadership position in the civil rights cause.
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Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
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SCLC: Influenced by faith and committed to mass nonviolent action such as: sit-ins, marches, and boycotts. Lead by MLK Jr. SNCC: College aged students who worked together to aide the civil rights movement. NAACP: Took the fight through civil rights through law.
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The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, in New York City. The National Association was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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The National FFA Organization has adapted to many changes over the years. In 1965, Future Farmers of America merged with New Farmers of America, an organization similar to FFA for African American students in segregated schools. In 1974, Fred McClure became the first African American national officer.
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Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of blacks in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G.
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. ... The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4.
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24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina's secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” It noted “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery” and protested that ...
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The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week".