(CNN) -- President Obama commended the progress of African-Americans in a speech on the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, but said there was still much work to be done. President Obama addresses the NAACP in New York Thursday night on the group's 100th anniversary. Speaking at the organization's annual convention in New York, the city where the organization was founded, Obama evoked symbols of the civil rights movement to describe the NAACP's influence on race relations in the United States. "What we celebrate tonight is not simply the journey the NAACP has traveled, but the journey that we, as Americans, have traveled over the past 100 years," Obama told a star-studded crowd that included music producer Sean "Diddy" Combs and poet Maya Angelou, to name a few.
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