NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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How to use NAACP in a sentence

The president of the Montgomery NAACP, Pullman porter E. D. Nixon, saw an opportunity.
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[At a 2004 NAACP event], he got worked up listening to speech after speech talk about the heroes of Brown v. Board of Education.
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The Monopoly-style “Ghettopoly” board game was drenched in racial stereotypes, and angered the NAACP.
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One such incident involved Jason Upthegrove, a Lima, Ohio, NAACP chapter president.
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In a sermon on Sunday, the chair of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP called Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) "a dummy."
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British Dictionary definitions for NAACP

NAACP

abbreviation for (in the US)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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