The NAACP will celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary on February 1, 2009 and will convene the 100th Anniversary Convention in New York City July 11- 17, 2009. A Variety of Special Events, Activities And Publications Will Be Sponsored Including A Three Edition Centennial Calendar

Before the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909, the status of African Americans was our nation’s greatest tragedy.