the foundation of the organization
On August 14, the Race Riot of 1908 occurred in Springfield, Illinois which is President Lincoln's hometown. There were two black prisoners who were charged with crimes against white victims. These supposed crimes raged a great amount of whites that transform into a white mob. The mob wanted the police to hand the prisoners over to them so they can kill them. The police did not fulfill the request by moving the prisoners on the back way to safety. When the mob realized what the police have done, they were outraged and began to destroy properties of those who helped with the escape who were whites. They eventually burn the prisoners alive when the prisoner were within the vehicle of transportation. When the mob we still full of adrenaline, they decided to harbor chaos in nearby black neighborhood. The white mob managed to lynch one black barber Scott Burton when the rest of neighborhood were already evaluated from the area. The riot tended to continue until August 19. This shocking turning even led to a conference being made by some very concerned whites. That conference marked the beginning of the NAACP.
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Birthday. The founders of the organization were either whites or Jews, and there was only one black founder. The names of the founders were Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Dr. Henry Moscowitz, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell.
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The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution - the principal objectives of the Association shall be:
Objectives
· The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution - the principal objectives of the Association shall be:
· To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens
· To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States
· To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
· To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
· To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.
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