4 The Rise of the NAACPos BETTER DAY COMING citizens” 1909, in all believers present evils, the v lucated, she became a set nally trained soc se of the Nege I she published Halfa Man: The iest studies ofits kind. Ovi black schools Status of the il had been shocked by wl rica” he wrote after a sense of t ton. By 1909, ments about Negro “progress” grossly mi vital respects was getting worse, no it said that Hampton and ‘ al Conference on the Negro. Denouncing the “ever- ty toatten we CHAR, ACTER oF THE NAACP 1e NAACP were 01917), wh workers, teachers, wrexery ely believed to Rise ofthe NAAG The NAACP se the ofthe conference, blacks wasa sensitive and iot work easily together. Apart fon npartial enforcement be guaranteed all the rights e nite of Forty to steer d lack militants, William Mo