{"id":1497,"date":"2009-02-25T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T13:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:34:22","slug":"100-years-of-the-naacp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1497","title":{"rendered":"100 years of the NAACP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/events\/centennial\/\">NAACP<\/a> (National Association for\u00a0the Advancement\u00a0of Colored People) was organized in February 1909. That&#8217;s right&#8211;this year we can look back on 100 years of hard work by this organization.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/beforehistime.jpg\" alt=\"Before His Time cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/inheritors.jpg\" alt=\"Inheritors of the spirit cover\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>If you&#8217;d like to learn more, your University&#8217;s Library can help. A search of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> would find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PV92AAAAMAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI&amp;pgis=1\"><em>Inheritors of the spirit: Mary White Ovington and the founding of the NAACP<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, E185.98.O95 W44 1998) and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=aVR2AAAAMAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI&amp;pgis=1\"><em>Before his time: the untold story of Harry T. Moore, America\u2019s first civil rights martyr<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, E185.97.M79 G74 1999).<\/p>\n<p>The NAACP&#8217;s web site has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/about\/history\/index.htm\">history<\/a> of the organization, also, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Search the Library&#8217;s article databases such as <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&amp;defaultdb=aph\"><em>Academic Search Premier<\/em><\/a> (Ebscohost) to find articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=aph&amp;AN=35347162&amp;site=ehost-live\">The History and Rhetoric of the NAACP: The Origins<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Black History Bulletin<\/em>, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 12-14).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> if you would like assistance in finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAACP (National Association for\u00a0the Advancement\u00a0of Colored People) was organized in February 1909. That&#8217;s right&#8211;this year we can look back on 100 years of hard work by this organization. If you&#8217;d like to learn more, your University&#8217;s Library can help. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[141,178,1101,231,1709,658],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-civil-rights","tag-history","tag-naacp","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}