Youth council celebrates NAACP Founders Day
Members of the Lower Sussex County NAACP Youth Council 2719 recently gathered at Milton Public Library to commemorate the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They discussed founders like Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells. In addition, they created posters featuring the pioneering activists.
Feb. 12, 1909, is the birthdate of the NAACP. One of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organizations, the NAACP was established a century after the birth of President Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. A bloody race riot in Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Ill., prompted a multiracial group of citizens to form the association with the mission of eradicating rampant racism from American society.
