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ay Refeaned ta NAVA | Cxvestigative Se€avite GNIS) rey 1 . P| | THE NATIOSAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE iT OF COLORED \ \ PEOPLE According to a newspaper clipping from the Washington \ NG | } ' Star dated February 23, 1934, the National Association for the Advencement of Colored People (NAACP) was organized folloving the \ rece riot of 1908 at Springfield, Illinois. WILLIAM siGLISHJMALLING suggested an organization for the protection of the colored race. A call was seat out by OS:ALD GARRISONAVILLAND. Among those respona~ ing were JANE™KDDAUS, LILLIAN DESALDS* JOHN,DESEY, Rabbi STEPEN = / _ AQWISE, and SA'UEL BOSLES. ; On Lincoln's birthday, formed for carrying out the purposes of the organization. In 1934 the NAACP had three hundred seventy-five branches and a membership ef about eighty thousand. In 1911 the NAACP declared through its organ, the “Crisis” that it is an organization of pérsons who believ that the present prejudice against colorec reces and parttcolarly : 1909, a Gomnittee of Forty was \ = Fi / a 7 ms