Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Visual Materials from the NAACP Records
1909
NAACP Founded
NAACP founded by interracial group of Americans including DuBois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett and Mary White Ovington in New York. Fun fact: In 1900, NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson penned, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which would become known as the Black National Anthem for generations.