NAACP
or N.A.A.C.P.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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[At a 2004 NAACP event], he got worked up listening to speech after speech talk about the heroes of Brown v. Board of Education.
The Monopoly-style “Ghettopoly” board game was drenched in racial stereotypes, and angered the NAACP.
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September 15, 2014
One such incident involved Jason Upthegrove, a Lima, Ohio, NAACP chapter president.
In a sermon on Sunday, the chair of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP called Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) "a dummy."
The good news is that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP have filed suit against the state.
NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Word Origin and History for naacp
NAACP
abbreviation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, first attested 1910. Organization founded Feb. 12, 1909, as National Negro Committee.
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