Graduation Speech: The National Association Of The Advancement Of Colored People

I just came from a NAACP meeting, we discussed the horrors of lynching, how it took so many innocent and young black lives from families and friends. This is all because of the color of our skins, not the amount of knowledge we hold. I have been apart of this group for as long as I can remember. The National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, was founded in 1909, right in the heart of New York City. Unlike Booker T. Washington, who urged black people to accept segregation, the NAACP desired to make whites aware of the need for racial equality, we want to be noticed politically and socially as equal people. The Crisis was the first launched magazine from the NAACP, it was mostly run by W.E.B. Du Bois and we want to use this platform