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Before the NAACP actually formed there was a very big incident that occurred in Springfield, Illinois, which led to the formation of the NAACP. In the morning of August 14, 1908 the whites had found out that there were two black people arrested for raping a white lady. By the afternoon groups of angry white started to gather around outside the jail. The number of people outside the jail had just kept on increasing, by 5.P.M there were four thousand people. The sheriff, Henry Loper, who was concerned

The disastrous riot got the attention of William Walling, a wealthy white writer who traveled with is wife to Springfield. He came to see what actually happed and why the riot was caused. William Walling wrote an article about this, The Independent. He also called a meeting with Ovington and Henry Moskowitz, another white social worker, they three met at Wallings apartment. They discussed about the bad treatment against the blacks and the racial discrimination and segregation of the blacks. These three workers had taken there first step to the organization today known as National Association for the Advancement of Colored People- the NAACP.

• In 1946 the NAACP wins the Morgan vs. Virginia case, where the Supreme Court bans states from having laws that sanction segregated facilities in interstate travel by train and bus.

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