NAACP History
Founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice, the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's largest and strongest civil rights organization.
The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of the United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes. This mission is accomplished by seeking the enactment and enforcement of federal, state and local laws securing civil rights, and by informint the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination.Â
From school desegregation, fair housing, employment and voter registration, to health and equal economic opportunity, the NAACP, working successfully with allies of all races, plays a significant role in establishing legal precedence in order to improve the quality of live of America's downtrodden.
NAACp founders include Ida Walls-Barrett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villiard and William English Walling. They answered a clarion "Call" to renew the struggle for civil and political liberty in response to the unrelenting lynching of blacks the occurred with impunity in 1909.
The NAACp is now a network of more than 2,200 affiliates covering all 50 states, the dirtric of Columbia, Japan and Germany. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, total membership exceeds 500,000.
Warren-Page Branch NAACP Chapter 7125 History
This chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was first chartered on January 6, 1947. It was chartered again on April 12, 1955, and again in January of 1975 and 1976. Because of the rural population it serves, during one of the first two charters the chapter included the counties of Warren and Rappahannock. This third reorganization into the Warren-Page NAACP current geographic area served by this chapter. In 2020, faced with Covid, the chapter virtually shut down. After several years of loss of memberships and noncompliance with the state and national conferences, Suetta Freeman and Gene Kilby decided to revitalize the Warren-Page Branch in November 2023. Currently the branch has over 80 members and is becoming very active in the community. Warren-paage was able to hose the 1st annual Juneteenth Celebration in Front Royal, VA on June 19, 2024.