Controversy aside, the national NAACP did accomplish goals that helped African-Americans under Gibson's tenure. For example, in 1993 the Spartanburg based Denny's restaurant chain signed an agreement with the NAACP that was worth an estimated billion dollars in jobs to minorities.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in ...
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement....
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP, an interracial membership organization, founded in 1909, that is devoted to civil rights and racial justice. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been instrumental in improving the legal, educational,
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The NAACP have played a very important part in the civil rights movement. The initials stand for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.  ... The NAACP was founded in 1909 by a group of multi-racial activists. It was originally called the National Negro Committee.
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The excitement over Obama was in stark contrast to the reception of former President Bush, who had a strained relationship with the NAACP and declined the group's invitations for five years. ... Bush spoke before the NAACP in 2000, during his first run for the presidency, but he did not make another appearance until 2006.
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Established in 1909 by a core group of black and white Americans, the NAACP's mission has been clarified and sharpened during our first 100 years. We have covered a lot of ground in the march ... What remains for the NAACP to accomplish now that the centuries-old racial barrier at the White House has been surmounted?
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Through advocacy training, policy development and guidance, building collaborative networks, and direct action, the National Education Department works to accomplish this goal with assistance from NAACP regional directors, state and local education committee chairs as well as our Partners in Education.
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