NAACPAlia Khan

Purpose

• NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• An African American Civil Rights organization that was formed in 1909

• Mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination“

Landmark Victory• In 1954 Thurgood Marshall and a team of NAACP attorneys

won Brown v. Board of Education • The Brown decision inspired the marches and demonstrations

of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s• Protests helped spring the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting

rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968• The NAACP represented civil rights workers and fought for

desegregation cases across the nation (using the Brown v. Board as their winning example)

• Cases were filed that successfully challenged discrimination in public areas, housing, employment, voting

Relation to Malcolm X

• The NAACP was active the same time Malcolm X was living

• They were a huge contributor to the Civil Rights movement

• Helped advance African American rights• When the March on Washington, the

NAACPstepped in to help organize it