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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1909-02-12-

Biographical / Historical

The NAACP is nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, created in 1909 to empower and protect African Americans under the Constitution through principles of equal justice under the law.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

NAACP Picket of Kresge store in East Lansing (two 16mm film reels), March 5, 1960

 Item — Box 5812, Reel: 2003-2004
Scope and Contents

This video is of the NAACP picket of the S. S. Kresge department store in East Lansing, Michigan on March 5, 1960. The picket was organized by Ernest Green, president of the NAACP chapter at MSU and one of the Little Rock Nine.

Dates: March 5, 1960