The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded as a direct response to

The NAACP was founded in 1909 in the wake of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois. The violence and discrimination there prompted civil rights activists to organize and press for racial equality. Booker T. Washington’s accommodation policy was debated by activists, but it was not the direct event that led to the organization’s founding.

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