NAACP

The **National Association for the Advancement of Colored People**, usually abbreviated as **NAACP**, is one of the oldest and most influential [|civil rights] organizations in the [|United States].[|[3]] Its mission is to "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."[|[4]] Its name, retained in accord with [|tradition], is one of the last surviving uses of the term "[|colored people]."

group founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and others in 1909 to end racial discrimination