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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) NAACP.
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
First Annual Report, January 1911.
12 unnumbered pages. Tall 12mo,
original printed self-wrappers; staples
slightly rusted, otherwise a fine copy.
NewYork, 1910-[1911]
[800/1,200]
THE RARE FIRST REPORT OF THE NAACP
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Founded in 1910 by a group of reformers led by
W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington.
Moorfield Storey, Oswald GarrisonVillard, and
a group of ministers, the purpose of the NAACP
was “To uplift the colored men and women of
this country by securing for them the full
enjoyment of their rights as citizens, justice in all
courts, and equality of opportunity everywhere.”
The “Program” for 1911 consisted of 9 points:
1. To begin immediately a scientific study of
Negro schools. 2.To organize a Legal Redress
Committee of national scope,whose work shall be
dealing with injustice in the courts as it affects the
Negro. 3.To establish a Bureau of Information .
. . 4.To publish The Crisis . .5. to hold mass
meetings 6.To form local groups. . etc.Number 9.
was “To make foreign propaganda to which Mr.
Du Bois, director of publicity and research for the
Association will make a European trip in April,
May and June, culminating in the Race Congress
in London, of which Mr. Du Bois is one of the
secretaries.”We could find no copies of this first
report in any library.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) NAACP.
A
Public Meeting, To protest against
Segregation and the establishment of a
System of Caste among its citizens by
the United States Government.
Small
broadside, 9x6 inches; paper toned.
Boston, 1913
[400/600]
This little broadside represents only the second
year of the Boston branch of the NAACP. It was
established when the second anniversary conference
of the NAACP was held there.The key speaker,
Moorfield Storey, was one of the founders of the
organization.
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