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Tia Whitman
Professor Tolbert
HIST1302_001171S
4 October 2017
History of the NAACP
For centuries, millions of African Americans were treated as property. When they were
finally free of this torment from the government, the majority of the people refused to
acknowledge their cruelty towards these people. In response to this lack of response and
continuous treatment similar to that of cattle, African Americans created the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. The founding of this program has
