National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) The mission of the NAACP is to protect and provide the political, educational, social, and economic equality rights of minority groups and citizens; attain equal opportunity of rights and excludes race discrimination between the citizens of the United States. The objectives of this mission are to inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination, to seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws, securing civil rights, to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes, to educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and†¦show more content†¦The focus was examining the advancement of the black man in America. The organization attempted to increase aid from Booker T. Washington, which turned out to be a complete failure due too. Over the next 100 years, the organization of people worked within the court system excluded Jim Crows law. The reason of this was avoid execution and other deadly harming to make sure all citizens were receiving the proper civil rights (Brayton, 2014). Many believed that because there were many businesses of minorities that were devastated and black were taken to their homes that a civil rights organization was being formed. Out of all the group leaders there was only one black and his name was W. E. B. Du Bois. The number one focus at this time was to protect the rights and equality of all citizens in the United States (Brayton, 2014). This was agreed upon by the 13th -15th Constitutional amendments. This is where the book, â€Å"The Crisis† was established by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910. The NAACP has made so much progress and currently has 64-member board of directors with headquarters in Baltimore, MD and regionals offices in California, New York, Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, and Texas (United States History, 2015). Currently, there are an estimated 500,000 members of the NAACP. This last update was in 2004. African Americans Education African American kids are likely to attend schools high-poverty schools because of race and income. In a study that was performed, there