Brief
History of the State NAACP
The citizens of the Great State of Oklahoma shall recognize and affirm the significant contributions over the past 100 years made the NAACP in the advancement of race relations, justice, civil and human rights, including those made by such esteemed NAACP members as Roscoe Dunjee, James E. (Jimmy) Stewart, Ada Lois Sipuel, Emma Lee, Clara Luper and a host others; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called the NAACP, founded February 12, 1909; with dedication, struggle, and achievement to further the cause of fair play, justice, and equal opportunities for minorities in this nation, under the guidance of its founders Mary White Ovington, William English Walling and Henry Moskowitz, the NAACP has been known as a strong figure in the advancement of civil rights during an era when segregation and injustice were bluntly practiced as a social norm, and under the guidance of its founders, and some of its early leaders like the legendary W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP began with only 3 members and has become a large and powerful body of citizens with over 400,000 members righting the wrongs of injustice and inequality, and the NAACP has led the civil rights struggle making significant gains for quality education, equal employment, and equal housing opportunities, and the rightful gains that blacks have made to ensure equal justice have been largely due to the persistence and determined efforts of the NAACP's leadership and membership, and those sympathetic to its cause, the NAACP the Association has worked unremittingly within the system to achieve equal opportunity and justice for all citizens.