Boston Branch National Association of Colored People is established.

[1911-Miletsky] Originally the Committee to Advance the Cause of the Negro, it is founded at the NAACP annual conference at the Park Street Church. The first chartered branch chapter of the NAACP in the U.S. (the organization was founded in New York City in 1908), its first president is Francis Jackson Garrison. Early members include Albert Grimké, Clement Morgan, William Monroe Trotter, and Butler Wilson. Membership grows to 2,700 by 1919. It becomes the largest NAACP chapter in the U.S. with more than 3,500 members in 1945, but membership drops during the “Red Scare” period in 1951.* Its headquarters are currently located at 330 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.