Crossword-Solution: NAACP 5 letters, 154 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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"Selma" won its 2015 Image Award 1 answer
ACT-SO org. 1 answer
Advocacy grp. whose magazine is called "The Crisis" 1 answer
Afr.-Amer. org. 1 answer
Annual Image Awards grp. 1 answer
Anti-discrimination grp. since 1909 1 answer
Anti-racism gp since 1909 1 answer
Antidiscrimination grp. 1 answer
Baltimore-based civil rights org. 1 answer
Baltimore-based rights org. 1 answer
Ben Chavis once headed it 1 answer
Benjamin Jealous is its CEO 1 answer
Benjamin Jealous is its pres. 1 answer
Black grp. 1 answer
Brown v. Board of Education sponsor org. 1 answer
Bush got heckled by death penalty opponents at its convention 1 answer
Century-old rights org. headquartered in Baltimore 1 answer
Chavis once headed it 1 answer
Civil Rights gp. since 1909 1 answer
Civil Rights grp. since 1909 1 answer
Civil Rights letters 1 answer
Civil Rights org. headed by Benjamin Todd Jealous 1 answer
Civil Rights org. since 1909 1 answer
Civil rights group 1 answer
Civil rights initials 1 answer
Civil rights org. founded in 1909 1 answer
Civil rights org. with Image Awards 1 answer
Discrimination-fighting org. 1 answer
Einstein joined it in the '40s 1 answer
Equality group est. in 1909 1 answer
Equality group est. in 1910 1 answer
Formerly Hooks' org. 1 answer
Gp. co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington, among others 1 answer
Gp. founded with W.E.B. DuBois 1 answer
Gp. headed by Kweisi Mfume 1 answer
Gp. once headed by Kweisi Mfume 1 answer
Grp. co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois 1 answer
Grp. involved with Brown v. Board of Education 1 answer
Grp. petitioning Congress to take up Voting Rights Act legislation 1 answer
Grp. that awards the Spingarn Medal 1 answer
Grp. that bestows Image Awards 1 answer
Grp. with the Spingarn Medal 1 answer
Ida B. Wells co-founded it 1 answer
Image Award org. 1 answer
Image Award presenter 1 answer
Image Awards awarder 1 answer
Image Awards gp. 1 answer
Image Awards grp. 1 answer
Image Awards org. 1 answer
Image Awards presenter 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NAACP (5)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE The Council on Foreign Relations has had a strong (though, probably, not controlling) hand in the NAACP.
The Invisible Government Dan Smoot 2006
Skilled journalists in the black press and counselors and lobbyists presenting such groups as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, and the National Negro Congress took the lead in the fight for racial justice in the United States.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor Jr. 2007
Schuyler, a widely quoted black columnist, put it: "If nothing more comes out of this emergency than the widespread understanding among white leaders that the Negro's loyalty is conditional, we shall not have suffered in vain."[1-17] The NAACP spelled out the challenge even more clearly in its monthly publication, _The Crisis_, which declared itself "sorry for brutality, blood, and death among the peoples of Europe, just as we were sorry for China and Ethiopia.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor Jr. 2007
This evolution in black attitudes was clearly demonstrated in correspondence in the 1930's between officials of the NAACP and the Roosevelt administration over equal treatment in the armed forces.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor Jr. 2007
The NAACP representatives rejected MacArthur's defense of Army policy and held out for a quota guaranteeing that Negroes would form at least 10 percent of the nation's military strength.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor Jr. 2007

Quotes with NAACP (3)

The people we find truly anathema are the ones who reduce the past to caricature and distortit to fit their own bigoted stereotypes. We’ve gone to events that claimed to be historic fashionshows but turned out to be gaudy polyester parades with no shadow of reality behind them. Aswe heard our ancestors mocked and bigoted stereotypes presented as facts, we felt like we hadgone to an event advertised as an NAACP convention only to discover it was actually a minstrelshow featuri…
Sarah A. Chrisman This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
Betty Hill
The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.
Burgess Owens
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 245 times in crossword archives (1969–2025).