The local NAACP chapter was inactive.

During his tenure, membership in the local NAACP chapter expanded from 7,000 in 1962 to more than 50,000 within a few years.

The NAACP chapter there soon grew to be the largest in the country.

Two recent lynchings had discouraged most of the local black community from attending despite efforts to the contrary by the local NAACP chapters.

However, talk of "the brutal rape and phony hearing" resonated through NAACP chapters throughout the south and within black communities.

He started the first NAACP chapter in South Florida.

Burnett continued his duty as the president of the NAACP chapter until 1963.

The local NAACP chapter saw an opportunity to push for change and helped the students continue the fight after the ten day strike was over.

Coupled with her great work as an educator, she organized and served as the first president of Indiana's NAACP chapter.

She also organized and was the first president of Indiana's first NAACP chapter.