1. History of the NAACP

2. Objectives Explain the history of the NAACP Analyze and evaluate the constitutional arguments for and against federal anti- lynching legislation in the 1920s Assess the significance of the failure of Congress to enact anti-lynching legislation and its impact on social justice in the United States

3. Founding Group Mary White Ovington Oswald Garrison Villard –Descendants of abolitionists –Appalled by the violence in Springfield, IL and lynching William English Walling Dr. Henry Moscowitz –call for a meeting to discuss racial justice Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American signed the call

4. Echoing the focus Du Bois' Niagara Movement The NAACP's stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution –which promised an end to slavery –the equal protection of the law – and universal adult male suffrage

5. Principle Objective To ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes The NAACP established its national office in New York City in 1910 Named a board of directors as well as a president, Moorfield Storey, a white constitutional lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association –The only African American among the organization's executives, Du Bois director of publications and research and in 1910 established the official journal of the NAACP, The Crisis

6. Anti-Lynching Legislation