Anti-Lynching+Movement

**__//Founding of the N.A.A.C.P//__**

 On February 12, 1909 the NAACP was founded by a multicolor group of activists against discriminatory laws and social practices. Originally they were known as the National Negro committee. The founders of the NAACP were: Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, and Oswald Garrison Villiard, andWilliam English Walling. In 1910 in the faco of adversity, the NAACP began its fight against social injustice, including the act of lynching an African American. First the NAACP sought to make whites aware of racial equality. It appealed to the Supreme Court to rule as unconstitutional. Mostly southern states voted against the group, but in 1916 the NAACP began to expand to more Southern states where the organization faced its most fierce opposition. ** “Every man is created equal, that is what our declaration states. If everyman is equal then how can we discriminate against one person who does not have the same skin color as us? African Americans should not be afraid to go outside and fear that their life is in danger. The Decleration of Independence states that each man is created equal. These are humans are they not? They are men and women just like you and I. And your southern representatives signed that Decleeration and agreed that all men had equal liberty. You should be ashamed of how you have treated these people, and the lynching must stop now!

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