NAACP

(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)


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It is to the eternal credit of the administrative officers of the WPA that discrimination on various projects because of race has been kept to a minimum and that in almost every community Negroes have been given a chance to participate in the work program. In the South, as might have been expected, this participation has been limited, and differential wages on the basis of race have been more or less effectively established; but in the northern communities, particularly in the urban centers, the Negro has been afforded his first real opportunity for employment in white-collar occupations
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That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.
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The organization was initially called the National Negro Committee. The following year the name was changed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Note that at the time, even for Blacks, the concept of desegregation was so far from reality that their efforts were simply to have segregated schools with the same resources as the white children had. The “separate but equal” doctrine was the method of the segregationists.

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… a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through
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When the Social Security Act was first passed, the jobs, such as housekeepers and domestic servants, and agricultural workers were not covered. This left out about two-thirds of the African Americans nationally and three-quarters of those in the South.

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.