National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Providence, Rhode Island Branch collection National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Providence, Rhode Island Branch collection 1914-1974 (bulk 1969-1974)

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Providence, Rhode Island Branch collection National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Providence, Rhode Island Branch collection 1914-1974 (bulk 1969-1974)

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The NAACP Providence, RI Branch Collection consists of correspondence, memorandum, documents, newspaper clippings and other material about civil rights issues both in Rhode Island and throughout the nation.

6.0 linear feet

eng,

Phillips Memorial Library, Special and Archival Collections

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909. The founders of the organization included famed civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, journalists Ida B. Wells and Charles Edward Russel, and lawyer-diplomat Archibald Grimké. The catalyst for the creation of the NAACP came from the Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, IL. What made the riot so egregious for the NAACP's founders was that it was in the hometown of Abraham...