In 1905 W.E.B. Dubois led the Niagara Movement (a black civil rights organization). And in 1909 he founded the NAACP. Echoing the focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement, the NAACP's stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male suffrage, respectively. The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes.
Du Bois was made director of publications and research and in 1910 established the official journal of the NAACP, The http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_naacp.html Crisis. Du Bois founded The Crisis magazine as the premier crusading voice for civil rights. Today, The Crisis, one of the oldest black periodicals in America, continues this mission.
Note also that in 1961 W.E.B Dubois began work as director of the Encyclopedia Africana.
The current President and CEO of the NAACP is Benjamin Todd Jealous.
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7.9.09 MNBC'S Carlos Watson talks with Benjamin Jealous, pres. of the NAACP, about what should be on the agenda for the group's annual meeting, which Pres. Obama will address.
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