NAACP Founded in Response to Springfield Massacre

On the centennial of Lincoln's birth, a multiracial coalition including Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey issued the 'Call,' founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP was explicitly formed to combat lynching, disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow segregation through legal action, lobbying, and public pressure. It became the primary institutional vehicle for Black civil rights for the next six decades.