Download or read book NAACP in Washington, DC, The: From Jim Crow to Home Rule written by Derek Gray and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in March 1912. President Woodrow Wilson's institution of Jim Crow segregation in the federal government in the spring of 1913 galvanized the African American community of D.C., and the NAACP launched a formidable crusade against Wilson's racist policies. The D.C. branch quickly became the leading organization advocating on behalf of the interests of the city's Black community. As the major civil rights organization of the nation's capital, it also developed a dual role as a watchdog body to prevent the passage of legislation in Congress that negatively affected African Americans/ Archivist and historian Derek Gray chronicles and analyzes the work of the D.C. NAACP through the civil rights era to the achievement of home rule--back cover.