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      In life we as African American has struggled with racism and discrimination for a long time, and this is struggle is still ongoing.   We have tried to prove ourselves as worthy individuals (indeed we are), but others do not see as upstanding worthy individuals.   African Americans have jumped through many obstacles and climb many mountains that we are still not taken seriously.   Until the 1900s we as African Americans had no one to turn to until the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded in 1909 that is devoted to civil rights and racial justice.   It is an interracial membership organization.   This organization is helpful in strengthening our beliefs in the justice system, because we have been failed for so long.   This organization has also been instrumental in improving the legal, educational, and economic lives of African Americans.   This organization was formed in response to the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois.   In 1917 its membership grew rapidly, from 9,000 to around 90,000 in 1919, with more than 300 local branches.   Throughout the 1920s fights and lynching was outrageous that the NAACP strongly supported the Dyer Bill, which would have punished those who participated in or failed to prosecute the lynch mob.   The U.S. Congress never passed this bill, or any antilynching legislation.   The NAACP was appalled at the violence and resentment towards blacks. The NAACP established its national office in New York City and named a board of directors as well a president. Throughout its existence it has worked primarily through the American legal system to fulfill its goals of full suffrage and other civil rights, and an end to segregation and racial violence.   (I) the potential impact of this article is that it helped African Americans overcome some struggles they were facing and also it eliminated segregation and gave hope that togetherness would soon come about.   (II) This topic is related to the African...