| The NAACP was founded by on February 12, 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling to work for the rights of colored people in response to the 1908 race riot in Springfield. It has worked through the American legal system to fulfill its goals of full suffrage and an end to segregation and racial violence. A series of early court battles, including a victory against a discriminatory Oklahoma law that regul...
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