Teacher’s Guide
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The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom Teacher's Guide (PDF, 512 KB)
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Primary Sources
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Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech
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DuBois Congratulates Washington on Atlanta Speech
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William English Walling, a NAACP Founder
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“Call” for a National Conference to Address Racial Inequality
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NAACP Officials Celebrating Twentieth Anniversary
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Defending Voting Rights in Texas
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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
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Report on Lynching in the United States
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Donald Murray's First Day of Law School
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A Letter from Walter White to Jesse Owens
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Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial Concert
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A Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Idea for a 1941 Mass Protest
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Attorneys for Brown v. Board of Education
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Flyer for the 1989 Silent March on Washington
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NAACP's Campaign for the Removal of the Confederate Flag
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