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NAACP Celebrates 100 Years Of Change

by Juan Williams, NPR
February 10, 2009

President Lincoln's birthday is on Thursday, but there's another anniversary on that day: One hundred years ago, a multiracial group of activists chose Lincoln's 100th birthday to announce "a call for a national conference on the Negro question." With that, the NAACP was born.

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