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= National Association for the Advancement of Colored People =

The NAACP is a black civil rights groups located in the US, and it's headquarters are in Baltimore Maryland. Their mission is to "ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination." It was founded by Moorfield Storey, W. E. B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington. They also hive yearly awards such as the annual Spingarn medals for black individuals that do something positive for the world. The NAACP contains a 64 member board, a chairperson, a president, and an elected chief executive officer. In 1913, the NAACP used the courts to overeaten the Jim Crow Laws as well as radicalized segregation.

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