A Moment in African American History

The NAACP was founded on February 12th 1909. It was founded by a racially diverse mix of people including the son of a slaveholder. In its early years its leadership had a large amount of Jewish Americans who saw parallels between their slaver in Egypt to that in America. It's mission is "To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."