NAACP
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About the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. It was founded February 12, 1909 on behalf of African Americans. The NAACP's headquarters is in Detroit, Michigan, with additional regional offices in California, New York, Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and Maryland. Each regional office is responsible for coordinating the efforts of state conferences in the states included in that region. Local, youth, and college chapters organize activities for individual members.
Mission Statement
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. ( NAACP)
Local Branches
The Greater Harrisburg Chapter of the NAACP was formed in 1920
In February 2002, NAACP leaders claimed a black student was assaulted by a security officer at a game. Although the officer was cleared after an investigation by Carlisle police, the incident raised general concerns about how minority students were being treated by district employees. Carlisle High School co-principal Gary Worley headed up a committee of NAACP leaders and school staffers to improve the treatment of minorities in schools.
The unity rally held at Dickinson College, in protest of the Ku Klux Klan's visit in Septemeber 2000, drew about 3,000 people and helped spawn the Greater Carlisle branch of the NAACP.
Ann Van Dyke, the president of the PA Human Relations Commission, who has spent years tracking hate groups, was honored by the NAACP in 2005. At the NAACP banquet, she was quoted as saying "Hate is not an act of strength. It is an act of fear and weakness."
