National Association of Colored People is established in New York City.

Originally the National Negro Committee in New York or the Committee of Forty, it is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and others at a meeting in New York City. Moorfield Story, a white Boston attorney, is the first president and serves in that position until his death in 1929. The organization adopts its current name and establishes and office in New York in 1910. Du Bois is the first editor of its quarterly magazine, The Crisis. By 1914, the organization claims nearly 3,0000 members and 24 branches. It supplants Booker T. Washington’s group as the most prominent civil rights organization in the country in 1915.