NAACP

American  

Or N.A.A.C.P.

1. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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NAACP British  

abbreviation

1. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Example Sentences

Earlier this month, a group of organizations, including the NAACP, National Education Association, and Student Debt Crisis Center, called on Washington to halt wage garnishment, saying it would add another burden to people already struggling to repay their student loans and other bills.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the end of 1955, Rosa Parks, the secretary of the NAACP, staged a similar protest and entered history.

From Salon

But five years after its passage, the law has hardly been used, according to an analysis of newly obtained sentencing data by the Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project and NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund.

From Los Angeles Times

Working with the NAACP, it contributed to a series of lawsuits that would ultimately help overturn the Plessy v.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a Stanford undergraduate, he met the NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall, not long after the latter won a victory against racial segregation in Brown v.

From The Wall Street Journal