The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on February 12, 1909 in Springfield, Illinois by 60 people including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey. The NAACP aims to remove social barriers of racial discrimination through peaceful actions and protect amendments that ended slavery and guaranteed rights to Black citizens. Major events include civil rights protests in 1917 and the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that overturned racial segregation in schools.