National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People Essay

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People     Born from the Niagara Movement, led by William E. B. DuBois, the NAACPhas had a volatile birth and a lively storey (Beifuss 17E4). The impetus forthe creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoplecame in the summer of 1908. Severe race riots in Springfield, Illinois,prompted William English Walling to write articles questioning the treatment ofthe Negro. Reading the articles, Mary White Ovington and Dr. Henry Moskowitzwere compelled to meet with Walling. Consequently, the three along with a groupof black and white citizens had considered the present state of the Negro,disfranchised in the South and taxed while going unrepresented in thegovernment, a national conference take to be held to answer the "NegroQuestion" (Jenkins). It was then that the idea of NAACP was created.     February 12, 1909, Lincolns birthday, a conference to review theprog ress that the nation made since Emancipation Proclamation and to sustainLincolns birthday took place Thereupon, a statement, now known as "The Call",was released. This statement reiterated the treatment of the black race since1865. Many notable figures in history signed "The Call" , e.g., Ida WellsBarnett, Jane Adams, W.E.B. DuBois and John Dewey. In a matter of two months,another conference was held. As a result of that conference, the NAA...