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NAACP
American civil rights organization
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, Emil G. Hirsch and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.
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🇺🇸 NAACP President Derrick Johnson remembers Jesse Jackson
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson joined CBS News to share his thoughts on Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who died Tuesday morning at 84....
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