The CIAA is the nationâs oldest black athletic conference, created more than 100 years ago by all-black colleges and universities that sprang up just before and after the Civil War when few white schools admitted African-Americans. So the yearly tournament is more than a week of basketball.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American organization that was founded on 12 February 1909 to promote the rights of minorities.he NAACP is an initialism for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP began in with W.E.B. DeBois's Niagara Movement.
The NAACP's headquarters is in Baltimore, with additional regional offices in California, New York, Michigan, Colorado, Georgia, Texas and Maryland. Each regional office is responsible for coordinating the efforts of state conferences in the states included in that region.he NAACP's Baltimore chapter, under president Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson, challenged segregation in Maryland state professional schools by supporting the 1935 Murray v. Pearson case argued by Marshall.