Founding group
The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth.
SOP
The Democrat Party wasn't always the liberal party.
And the first black members of the House and Senate were Republicans after the Civil War.
Party identities change.
Does that mean it was conservatives that started the KKK then?
Can we stop pulling up stuff from 100 years ago and applying it to today? Yes, things change and evolve, that's why I think it's ridiculous to bring up old history and try to paint it onto today.
When you plant ice you're going to harvest wind. - Robert Hunter
