National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

CTL-E-0498 · Organization · other · 1909–present

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Founded in 1909, the NAACP added its first two branches in Boston and Chicago in 1912.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-211; source research type(s): Civic organization. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NAACP&diff=next&oldid=1333261334
https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/first-of-many-ida-b-wells-part-iii

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