The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People In all of history, people of fought for rights. In most countries, and especially in the United States, the people are eventually given rights be documents such as the United States Constitution. However, the rights given by such writings are not always given to everyone. This creates the struggle for equal rights. Equal rights are what colored people have sought ever since the end of the …showed first 75 words of 959 total…

…showed last 75 words of 959 total…to achieve what it wanted and thus offended no one and maintained its integrity. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created to advance the economic, educational, social and political status of colored people. It was created at a time when colored people were not given the civil rights that were promised to them by the Constitution. The NAACP used democratic means to achieve its goals and continues to do so today.