On February 12, 2009, the NAACP will mark its 100th anniversary. The NAACP Headquarters, based in Baltimore, MD, along with its 1,700 units nationwide, will host celebrations and observances throughout the year ending on February 12, 2010, that highlight the significant role the organization has played in leading social change in America.
Following is a partial listing of upcoming events for your planning calendars.
The NAACP is the nation's oldest,
largest and most widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors. [Read more]
In celebration of the NAACP’s centennial anniversary the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine have teamed up with Gibbs Smith, Publisher, on a visually stunning and groundbreaking new book chronicling the 100 years of the NAACP and The Crisis, NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures. The images are from the NAACP’s own photo files and records. To commemorate the one hundred years of the oldest, largest, and most effective civil rights organization in the world, we are pleased to present you with this volume that is due out in February 1909.
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