NAACP Milestones

Celebrating the NAACP at 100: See 10 Major Milestones

1942 - The Association worked with studio executives and politicians to establish an ad hoc committee with the major film studios to monitor the image and portrayal of African Americans on the silver screen. That has become an ongoing cause of the NAACP.
1960 - Sen. John F. Kennedy addressed an audience of 7,000 at the NAACP Civil Rights Rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Calif., just four days before he secured the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
1975 - On Aug. 6, President Ford signed H.R. 6219, amending and extending certain provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, culminating a two-year effort by the Washington Bureau and cooperating organizations. The 1974 Act extended protection of the right to register and vote to non-English speaking groups, especially Hispanics.
1987 - On the 30th anniversary of the use of federal troops to enforce integration of the Little Rock's Central High, the NAACP reunited the Little Rock Nine and NAACP leader Daisy Bates at ceremonies at the Arkansas Capital.1991 - Following the victory in the Republican gubernatorial primary by former Klansman and neo-Nazi David Duke, the NAACP Louisiana State Conference launched a voter registration and Get-Out-The-Vote campaign resulting in Duke’s defeat.

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1960 - Sen. John F. Kennedy addressed an audience of 7,000 at the NAACP Civil Rights Rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Calif., just four days before he secured the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

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