Caption:
NAACP promotional poster showing woman voting, boy carrying books, and man working. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African-Americans. Its mission in the 21st century is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people, referring to those with some African ancestry. Elton C. Fax, 1946 (cropped and cleaned).