National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People Essay

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People      Born from the Niagara Movement, drove by William E. B. DuBois, the NAACP has had an unstable birth and an exuberant history (Beifuss 17:E4). The driving force for the production of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People came in the mid year of 1908. Serious race revolts in Springfield, Illinois, provoked William English Walling to compose articles scrutinizing the treatment of the Negro. Perusing the articles, Mary White Ovington and Dr. Henry Moskowitz were constrained to meet with Walling. Subsequently, the three alongside a gathering of high contrast residents had thought about the current situation with the Negro, disfranchised in the South and burdened while going unrepresented in the government, a national gathering should have been held to answer the "Negro Question" (Jenkins). It was then that the possibility of NAACP was made.      February 12, 1909, Lincoln's birthday, a gathering to audit the progress that the country made since Emancipation Proclamation and to celebrate Lincoln's birthday occurred; Thereupon, an announcement, presently known as "The Call", was discharged. This announcement repeated the treatment of the dark race since 1865. Numerous eminent figures in history marked "The Call" , e.g., Ida Wells Barnett, Jane Adams, W.E.B. DuBois and John Dewey. In only two months, another gathering was held. Because of that gathering, the NAA...