The NAACP at 100 -- A Photo Retrospective
A look at the people, places and events that defined the long struggle for racial equality in America.
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Founding FatherJoel Elias Spingarn, one of the NAACP's founders and second president. Spingarn was also one of the organization's first Jewish members.
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The Man Who Killed Jim CrowLawyer, NAACP litigation director and former Dean of Howard University Law School Charles Hamilton Houston. He was involved in nearly every civil rights case brought to the Supreme Court between 1930-1954. Houston also trained Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.
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Lest We Forget...A flag, frequently hung from the NAACP headquarters in New York, announces the death of a lynching victim.
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Dynamic DuoFormer NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins and former Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall at work in the NAACP office.
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First Lady FirstFormer first lady Eleanor Roosevelt attends an NAACP event in the 1950s.
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The Dream TeamThe 1964 conference on civil rights: From left: Bayard Rustin, Jack Greenberg, Whitney Young Jr., James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and A. Philip Randolph.
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Ole Miss ManSlain civil rights activist and former NAACP state field representative Medgar Evers. Evers, who worked hard to desegregate the University of Mississippi, was shot in his driveway in 1963. His killing shocked the nation and further energized the campaign to desegregate American life.
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Birth of a NationThe controversial 1915 silent film by D.W. Griffith was met with protest and demands of censorship by the NAACP. Despite the organization's national campaign against Birth of a Nation, it went on to become one of the highest selling Hollywood films, eventually beat out by "Gone with the Wind" in 1940.
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Kentucky Klass KlashA student of an integrated school in Sturgis, Ky. is escorted by the National Guard at the end of class.
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At the OfficeNAACP and The Crisis magazine office at 69 Fifth Avenue in New York City, N.Y.
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Get Out & Vote!A school bus sign advertising one of the NAACP voter registration drives.
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Signs of the TimesNAACP members at the 1934 Crime Conference in Washington, D.C.
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White Water, Black WaterA young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939.
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Membership and DuesIn 1941, an NAACP membership poster targets new recruits and encourages readership of the magazine.
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Visible ThreatsFormer NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins holds up a hangman's noose from Florida that was sent to the NAACP national headquarters.
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Miss Lena Sings the BluesMedgar Evers escorts singer Lena Horne into a Jackson, Miss. meeting hall for a civil rights rally in 1963.
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Silent ProtestBritish NAACP picketers brandish anti-lynching posters.
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War WoundsSept. 5, 1963: Pedestrians stop to look at the damaged home of NAACP attorney Arthur Shores. Assailants had bombed Shores' Birmingham, Ala. home the night before, injuring his wife.
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19 of 19 Moving ForwardMarch on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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