Abstract

            National Association of the Advancement of Colored People is an organization that had been formed back in the year 1909 by Du Bois and his co-founders. The organization had been mainly formed to fight for civil rights of the black people. It had been having believes that the white Americans used to discriminate the Black people basing on the issue of racism. The organization took part in several aspects like formulation of a committee that to laws against the people who used to violate the rights of the black people and also formed a campaign of protecting enforcement of the 14^th and the 15^th amendments through offering education on political and civil rights bureau, race and legal bureau. Du Bois had become violent because of the unwillingness of the organization to meet the new economic conditions. This made him ignore the policies of the organization and had begun fighting for separation of economic strategy. The organization had been only active during the first half of the nineteenth century. There have not been recent studies concerning its continuity in fighting the civil rights.

Introduction

            National Association of the Advancement of Colored People is civil organization that had been founded back in the year 1909. The organization was formed by a group of whites and blacks (Rosenberg, 493). The main characters who were involved in the foundation include Florence Kelly, Charles Edward Rusell, William English Walling, Oswald Garrison Villard, Mary White Ovington, Henry Moskowitz, Archibald Grimke, Ida B. Wells and W. E. B. Du Bois (Woodley, 7). This organization had been led by the white people initially as the blacks could afford to support the organization

The Believes of National Association of the Advancement of Colored People

            There had been a magazine that that Du Bois published and was entitled, “the crisis”. This magazine had been produced by the organization to bring about protests and publications all forms of abuses that the black people had been directed to. It had been aiming to changing the whites’ attitude against the black people (Woodley, 2). In order to challenge the issue of racism, there had been the need for selection of members to act as African American representatives in culture and art. The main idea for the formation of the organization had been directed to of African American justice by fighting racial biasness and promotion of civil authority for the black people. The establishment of this organization was an indication of the beginning the movement of civil authority existence. There had been also the need for social, economical, educational and political for the Americans who were being considered as minors. The organization had been having believes that there was the need to change the attitude that had been portrayed by the white American towards the black people.  The racism had been strengthened  by depictions which had been stereotyped therefore the organization was believing that in order to build positive attitude in the minds of the whites, there was the need to challenge them and work hard to ensure they had been removed completely. The organization had believes that there would be participation of the norms of the culture and enable the establishment of different ideas of the organization towards fighting for the civil rights. The organization had the feeling that the blacks had been going through tough times of discrimination as a result of the negative attitude concerning racism.

Participation of the Civil Rights Movement in Various Aspects

            The organization had participated in the formation of a committee that had been involved in formulation of laws to act on the people who had been violating and neglecting the rights of the black people. The committee was called Legal Redress Committee (Rosenberg, 493). The laws had been primarily directed to the government and the city because they had been doing against the rights of the blacks. The organization had also been involved in formation of a campaign. This was to be directed towards protect ion of enforcement of the 14^th and the 15^th amendments through offering education on political and civil rights bureau, race and legal bureau (Woodley, 7).

Violence

            There has been violence as a result of disagreements between the founders of the organization who had been non-violent earlier. The organization had not been willing to meet new economic situations in 1930. This made Do Bois to become frustrated. He had been feeling enclosed by this agenda (Horne & Mary, 143). He thereby begun fighting for another strategy of separation of the economic issues and had now turned from uniting with the organization’s mission of fighting for the civil rights of the black people and the minority Americans. This made him face much opposition from the organization. He had also begun being against the policies of the organization

The Organization Today

            Much of the recent research that has shown that the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People has not been fighting for civil rights since the end of the first half of the nineteenth century( Woodley,9) . 

Conclusion

            National Association of the Advancement of Colored People is had been founded in the early nineteenth century by Du Bois and his co-founders. It had been having believes that the white Americans used to discriminate the Black people basing the issue of racism. The main had been directed towards changing the attitude of the white people against the blacks. There had been the need to challenge the issue of racism through selection of representative African American members to act in culture and art. The organization took part in several aspects of like formulation of a committee that was to make laws against the people who used to violate the rights of the black people and also formed a campaign of protecting enforcement of the 14^th and the 15^th amendments through offering education on political and civil rights bureau, race and legal bureau. Du Bois became violent because of the unwillingness of the organization to meet the new economic conditions. This made him ignore the policies of the organization and had begun fighting for separation of economic strategy. The organization had been only active during the first half of the nineteenth century. There have not been recent studies concerning its continuity in fighting the civil rights.

 

 

 

 

Work cited

Rosenberg, Norman L. Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People. Belmont, Calif:                 Wadsworth, 2013. Print.

Woodley, Jenny. Art for Equality: The Naacp's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights. , 2014. Internet                resource.

Horne, Gerald, and Mary Young. W.e.b. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press,      2000. Print.