The Origins of Modern Day Policing
Learn about the history of modern day policing in the U.S., home to the world’s largest prison population and highest per-capita incarceration rate.| NAACP
Learn about the history of modern day policing in the U.S., home to the world’s largest prison population and highest per-capita incarceration rate.| NAACP
Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon when she refused to leave her bus seat for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.| NAACP
One of the premier Black scholars of his time, W.E.B. Du Bois was a founding member of the NAACP.| NAACP
NAACP is governed by a Board of Directors, a dynamic group of leading activists and philanthropists from around the United States.| NAACP
NAACP is fighting to address the environmental injustice that systematically impacts African American communities.| NAACP
White Americans used lynching to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and early 20th centuries. NAACP led a courageous battle against lynching.| NAACP
