National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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1. an interracial U.S. organization working for political and civil equality of Black people: organized in 1910. NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

1. An organization that promotes the rights and welfare of black people. The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States, founded in 1909. Among the NAACP's achievements was a lawsuit that resulted in the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown versus Board of Education, in 1954, which declared the segregation of public schools unconstitutional. (See also W. E. B. DuBois and separate but equal.)

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The national organization, founded as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a stated goal of support “for all marginalized people,” did not immediately respond to the Tribune’s requests for comment.

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As a presidential candidate in 2020, he told the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that he was involved in desegregating restaurants, though there is no evidence he worked to do that.

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At Disney World that day, you would never have known that the League of United Latin American Citizens, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the L.G.B.T.Q. organization Equality Florida had all recently issued warnings telling people to reconsider coming to Florida because of the policies of Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican lawmakers.

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In a letter requesting a meeting with city officials and the chief, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Carroll County said the department’s statement lacked “sincerity” and “sensitivity toward minority residents.”

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Saturday issued a travel advisory for Florida, saying that under Gov. Ron DeSantis the state has become “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and L.G.B.T.Q.+ individuals.”

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