国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded today in 1909. This snapshot of a NAACP youth group was taken by the Scurlock Studio in Washington, DC in the mid-1900s. Before the rise of youth-led organizations like Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, NAACP youth councils and college chapters prepared a generation of Black Americans to become leaders in the civil rights movement. The NAACP's Youth and College Division was established in 1936, under the leadership of Juanita Jackson. (Jackson's own work as an organizer began when she was still a teen growing up in Maryland. At the age of 18, Jackson founded and led the City-Wide Young People’s Forum in Baltimore, which helped revitalize the city's branch of the NAACP). The NAACP's youth organizations mobilized young people nationwide around a host of issues: anti-lynching legislation, equal access to education, job opportunities, voting rights, and more. Young activists took on a range of activities, from voter registration campaigns to boycotts and other public demonstrations that challenged Jim Crow laws. Many well-known activists and leaders in the civil rights movement had a direct connection to the NAACP's youth organizations. 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, for example, was a member of NAACP Youth Council in Montgomery, Alabama, when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus on 1955. Rosa Parks (whose own arrest triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott 9 months later) founded Montgomery’s NAACP Youth Council in the 1940s. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're exploring the experiences of young Black Americans and the many ways they been on the front lines of change, from before our nation's founding to today. #YouthHistory #AmericanHistory #History #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #CivilRightsHistory #TeenHistory #MarylandHistory #AlabamaHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #CivilRightsMovement #TDIH #OTD」2月12日 22時41分