The main reason the NAACP was founded was because they responded to the continuing terrifying practices of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and grave site of the Great Emancipator, President Abraham Lincoln. Shocked at the violence that was committed against African-Americans, a group of Caucasian liberals that including Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, they are both the descendants of activists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz sent out a call for a meeting to talk about the need racial justice. About 60 people, 7 of who were African American ( W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the expo of Lincoln's birth.
Other early members entailed Joel and Arthur Spingarn, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge, John Haynes Holmes, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Lillian Wald, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, and Walter Sachs.
Reapting the focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement started in 1905, the NAACP's known goal was to make sure for all people the rights were guaranteed in the 14th, 13th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to all slavery, the same protection of the law, and general adult male suffrage, respectively.
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