feb 12, 1909 - NAACP Founded

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded with the goals of eliminating forced segregation, enforcing the 14th and 15th amendments, the creation of educational opportunities for blacks equal to those available to whites, and the complete enfranchisement of all black men. The NAACP was influential in combatting the most prevalent forms of racial injustice in the South, such as lynching and the creation of racist films such as Birth of a Nation. (Continuity: blacks fighting for complete equality with whites socially and politically)

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