NAACP

English

Pronunciation

• typically read "N-double-A-C-P"

Proper noun

NAACP

1. Initialism of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
   • 2017 September 13, Haroon Siddique, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hero 'was originally black'”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 April 2020:

     Dahl insisted there was no racist intent behind the Oompa Loompas but also said he found himself sympathising with the NAACP.

   • 2020 June 22, Trudy Ring, “Mondaire Jones Could Be the Nation's First Black Gay Congressman”, in The Advocate‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 August 2021:

     Criminal justice reform has become a national topic of discussion given recent police killings of Black men, and Jones points out that he's been a longtime activist on this issue, with his experience in Palo Alto and as an NAACP youth organizer. Also, he notes, as a Black man, "People like me are overpoliced, overarrested, overprosecuted."

   • 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 350:

     The NAACP would probably hold a press conference.

Anagrams

• ancap