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February 12th

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  1. 1909
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    NAACP founded

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York on the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Co-founders include W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, and Archibald Grimké.

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