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This resolution commemorates the 116th Founders Day of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), celebrating the organization's historic commitment to racial justice and civil rights. The document highlights the founding of the NAACP on February 12, 1909, by a group of visionary leaders including Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Dr. Henry Moscowitz, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell, who united to combat racial discrimination and inequality in the United States. The resolution emphasizes the Georgia NAACP's ongoing efforts to advocate for civil rights, including ensuring equitable access to education, healthcare, employment, and housing, and its role in dismantling segregation through protests, litigation, lobbying, and public education. By commemorating this milestone, the resolution honors the resilience and courage of past and present civil rights activists while recommitting to the organization's core mission of achieving racial equality and justice for all people in Georgia and beyond, recognizing both the progress made and the challenges that remain in the ongoing struggle against systemic racism.

https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70223