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This film traces the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the organization's founding in 1909. Nancy Wilson and Julian Bond co-host this presentation. With film clips, personal recollections, interviews, and commentary, the long history of the struggle against racial discrimination is traced. Some highlights of the NAACP's accomplishments include passage of anti-lynching legislation in the 1920's; organizing Black union workers in the 1930's; the fight for fair treatment of Blacks in the movie industry in the 1940's; and the historic case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in the 1950's. The film also depicts the continuing efforts of the NAACP from the 1960's to the present.