Women hands a flyer to a man looking to join the NAACP . The NAACP was founded in 1909 on Abraham Lincoln's birthday after a riot had broken out the...
Washington, DC: Attorneys for the NAACP are shown. Left to right: William T Coleman Jr, New York; Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel; and Wiley A...
African-American writer, editor and political activist Professor W E B Du Bois at the headquarters of the NAACP publication 'Crisis' as his...
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protesting against the disappearance of three civil rights activists from...
View inside an office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People where a man points to a sign reading, 'Are You ON GUARD;...
Flag hanging outside the headquarters of the NAACP at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, bearing the words 'A Man was Lynched Yesterday'.
Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, pauses while speaking during a press conference announcing a lawsuit by the NAACP and Prince...
Marchers holding signs gather at school athletic field in Tallahassee, Florida before a Civil Rights march.
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady and wife of President Franklin D Roosevelt, with Mrs Juanita Jackson, attorney for the NAACP legal redress...
Walter White, activist and Secretary of NAACP, at a table with microphone for NBC, February 24, 1934.
Bill Russell and Earl Wilson, listen to speakers at a memorial service for slain NAACP leader, Medgar W. Evers. Some 5,000 people were at the Boston...
The St. Louis Board of Education was picketed by the NAACP after the Board issued a modified enrollment plan which the NAACP did not go far enough in...
In Jackson, 1500 people attended a NAACP nighttime rally here on August 13 among them some 170 'Freedom Riders' in town to appeal previous...
Former United States First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Walter White...
American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu wearing an orange headwrap attends the 29th Annual NAACP Image Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium...
African-American teenagers, carrying American flags, protest the assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, US, 13th June...
Washington, D.C.: Attorneys for the NAACP are shown. Left to right: William T. Coleman Jr., New York; Wiley A. Branton, Pine Bluffs, Arkansas; and...
New York: Faces Countersuit. Autherine Lucy , 26-year-old Negro who was for a brief time the only member of her race ever to attend the University of...
Ocala, FL: Seated in the crowded courtroom during the second trial of Walter Lee Irvin are, Left to Right: Paul C. Perkins; Jack Greenberg, New York...
Seven of the nine negro students now attending classes at central high school under protection of federal troops are shown as they met for a short...
Walter White, activist and Secretary of NAACP, speaks at Fair Employment Practices Commission hearing before Senate subcommittee on Labor,...
American writer and sociologist W E B DuBois , a founder member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , he eventually...
Elevin pupils showed up at the Phillips Brooks elementary school in Roxbury ignoring the called Boston school boycott by the NAACP.
Logo is seen for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks speaks during a...
Bishop Smallwood Williams delivers a prayer during a civil rights movement demonstration in front of the White House, Washington DC, US, 18th June...
49th Annual Convention, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, July 8-13, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, July 1958.
Washington, D.C.- Leaders of the March on Washington lock arms and put hands together as they move along Constitution Avenue here Aug. 28. A. Philip...
Washington, DC: Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building after the High...
Senator Edward P. Costigan , co-author of the Anti-Lynching Bill, and Walter White, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of...
John Davis and Thurgood Marshall argued for and against school segregation before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Marshall's...
Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 17 states meet in Atlanta, May 22nd to plan a course of action in...
DuBois , American educator, editor and writer who helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Undated Photograph.
Washington, D.C.: Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Chief Council, is shown in front of the Supreme Court, making a last-ditch appeal that would permit Black...
Jackson, Mississippi: To Return To Ole Miss James H Meredith reads prepared statement at news conference January 30, saying he has decided to return...
Attorneys Spottswood Robinson III and Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Arrive at Federal Court. They are pleading for an order to allow 30 African American...
Officials of the NAACP arrive in Federal Court here, November 4th, to contest an ordinance passed by the city council and drafted by the Arkansas...
Demonstrators preparing to picket selected businesses in Atlanta leave the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium where the NAACP is holding its annual...
Deputy Chief JL Ray arrests Roy Wilkins , Executive Secretary of the NAACP, and Medgar Evers, , NAACP field secretary, who are picketing outside a...
Citizens marching and holding signs during a protest during a conference for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , 1964.
The leaders of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, from left, President Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters A. Philip Randolph , National Association...
View, from behind, of a group of students, most in NAACP jackets, as they stand outside of a Trailways bus during the March on Washington for Jobs...
American actress Nia Long attends the 26th Annual NAACP Image Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, 5th January 1994.
Actress/director Regina King gets ready for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards on March 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
Schoolchildren and members of the NAACP parade in Washington DC, 17th May 1979, the 25th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's ruling, which ended...
Some of the more than 100,000 people demonstrating in protest at racial discrimination, jam Woodward Avenue, from curb to curb in a huge, but orderly...
Portrait of American Civil Rights activist Ella Baker , the NAACP Hatfield representative, as she sits behind a desk covered with paperwork,...
Former Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis Jr and small group of people holding...
Former Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis Jr and small group of people holding...
Former Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis Jr speaking at a podium, Richmond,...
Former Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis Jr and small group of people holding...
Roy Wilkins of the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People and editor of the Crisis, champions the FEPC at a rally here in Madison...
Washington, DC- NAACP Overground Railroad marchers for voter registration, led by Edward Hailes , President of the DC branch of the NAACP, and Joseph...
