For more than ninety seven years, the NAACP has been built on the individual and collective courage of thousands of people. People of all races, nationalities and religious denominations, who were united on one premise --that all men and women are created equal.

Although, one could write great prose about the triumphs of the NAACP, there is nothing more powerful than the facts of how the existence of the oldest civil rights organization has changed the face of history for this country. And despite threats of violence, and official government policies that were racist the NAACP continued and will continue to persevere.

Here are just a few of the NAACPs hundreds and thousands of courageous moments that involved everyone from school children to laborers to professionals to presidents to just ordinary men and women, who decided to champion whats right and just on an extraordinary level...