NAACP Events

1909 Feb 12 The National Association for the Advacement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded
Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters t...
1943 Dec Rosa Parks joins NAACP and becomes active in Civil Rights Movement
In December 1943, Parks became active in the Civil Rights Movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected volunteer secretary to its president, Edgar Nixon. Of her p...
1964 Jun Council of Federated Organizations Launches Freedom Summer to Register Black Voters in Mississippi
Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible ...
1979 NAACP awards Rosa Parks the Spingarn Medal
In 1979, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Parks the Spingarn Medal,[41] its highest honor,[42] and she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award the...
2009 Jul 14 Michael Steele Urges NAACP to Consider GOP an Ally
Washington Post (New York)--Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele stopped by the NAACP convention today to press the civil rights organization to consider his party an all...