Flag hanging outside the headquarters of the NAACP at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, bearing the words 'A Man was Lynched Yesterday'.
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...
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protesting against the disappearance of three civil rights activists from...
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...
African-American writer, editor and political activist Professor W E B Du Bois at the headquarters of the NAACP publication 'Crisis' as his...
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;...
Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, pauses while speaking during a press conference announcing a lawsuit by the NAACP and Prince...
Washington, DC: Attorneys for the NAACP are shown. Left to right: William T Coleman Jr, New York; Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel; and Wiley A...
Former United States First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Walter White...
Walter White, activist and Secretary of NAACP, at a table with microphone for NBC, February 24, 1934.
American baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers holds the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People placard in...
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...
American former baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers is greeted at the airport as he arrived to speak at Southeastern Regional...
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, DC: Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building after the High...
Former baseball star Jackie Robinson told several thousand Negroes at a state wide NAACP rally here 5/1 that Sen. John Kennedy would not get NAAP...
Former Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell speaking to the crowd during the 77th annual convention of the National Association for the...
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.
President Truman meets with a group of Black leaders at the White House. The group with Mary McLeod Bethune and A. Philip Randolph , urged Mr. Truman...
Logo is seen for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks speaks during a...
49th Annual Convention, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, July 8-13, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, July 1958.
Bishop Smallwood Williams delivers a prayer during a civil rights movement demonstration in front of the White House, Washington DC, US, 18th June...
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...
Senator Edward P. Costigan , co-author of the Anti-Lynching Bill, and Walter White, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of...
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...
DuBois , American educator, editor and writer who helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Undated Photograph.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, , is shown as she presented the Spingarn Medal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to...
Attorneys Spottswood Robinson III and Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Arrive at Federal Court. They are pleading for an order to allow 30 African American...
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.
American former baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers is greeted by an enthusiastic crowd as he arrived at Zion Baptist Church to...
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.
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...
Vice President George H. W. Bush spaeking to a conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Baltimore, Maryland,...
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...
Norman, OK: Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel, a Negro, is shown applying for admission to the Univ. Of Oklahoma School of Law, after a long legal struggle...