NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - A U.S. based organization who champions the rights of African-Americans. It is ironic that if any caucasian calls an African-American "Colored" he'd be committing a faux pas about as bad as using the infamous "N" word. It is more ironic that Hispanics, Asians, Persians, Arabs, Black Cubans and Pacific Islanders aren't considered "Colored People" the way the association defines it.

The NAACP was extremely important in the civil rights movement (dated by its very name), but is searching for its relevance nowadays, mostly resorting to rabble-rousing in the school systems to make the point of continued inequality.

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