“A Man Was Lynched Yesterday”

The Story Behind The Flag

NAACP Headquarters 1920–1938

The NAACP might be better known for its fight against segregation, notably the Brown v Board of Education victory in the Supreme Court in 1954. Long before that, its focus was on stopping lynchings across America. They conducted an anti-lynching campaign from 1909 thru 1939. Before Thurgood Marshall, there was Ida B. Wells, who helped found the NAACP Women’s Group (and…