USC Aiken NAACP

USC Aiken NAACP The Youth and College Division of the NAACP is to develop an intelligent, militant and effective you This is now generally viewed as dated and derogatory.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. The NAACP was founded by a diverse group on February 12, 1909 by WEB Dubois (African American), Ida Wells-Barnett (African American), Henry Moscowitz (Jewish), Mary White Ovington (Caucasian), Oswald Garrison Villard (German-born Caucasia

n), and William English Walling (Caucasian, and son of a former slave owning family) to work on behalf of the rights of colored people including Native Americans, African Americans, as well as Jews. Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term "colored people". In the historical context of the NAACP, however, the term is not considered offensive.

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471 University Pkwy
Aiken, SC
29801

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(864) 554-8890

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