NAACP's Ambitious Beginnings Took Root In Mass.

Feb. 12 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP.



At the dawn of the 20th century, a group of black and white people -- men and women, Jews and Gentiles -- issued "a call for a national conference on the Negro question."



Historian Kerri Greenidge has written about those early days in a book called "Boston's Abolitionists," and she teaches black history at Suffolk University.



WBUR's Bob Oakes spoke with Greenidge on Morning Edition.

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