Celebrating Inspirational Individuals

NAACP

This group is known as NAACP, which is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was the largest civil rights organization. This group was found in 1909 in New York City by an interracial group of activists. The people who were a involved in this group were Mary White Ovington, Henry Moskowitz, William Walling, and Oswald Garrison Villard. Along with African Americans such as W.E.B. DuBois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Archibald Grimke and Mary Church Terrell. These individuals were a special part of NAACP. They had many campaigns and protests during this civil rights movement. The NAACP promised to get equal rights and and eliminate racial prejudice. This also was a organization to have voting rights, legal justice, and educational and employment opportunities for them. A situation they were in was the "grandfather clause", which was illiterate whites that avoided taking the reading test white discriminating against illiterate African Americans, whose ancestors weren't guaranteed the right to vote in 1866, by requiring them to past a test in order to vote. They were upset with this law and they did everything they could to change this law.


An important person to me who was apart of the NAACP is Ida B. Wells-Barnett. She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16th, 1862. And died on March 25th, 1931. She faced a lot through her lifetime. Such as she battled sexism, racism, and violence. She was a journalist. She began to focus on white mob violence. She became skeptical about the reasons why black men were lynched and set out to investigate several cases. She was also the founder of another organization called NACWC, which was the National Association of Colored Women's Club. This group was formed to address the issues with dealing with civil rights and women's suffrage. She created the first African American kindergarten in her community. She was a very important role in African American History. She inspires me that women have equal rights such as men do.