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= The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People = There was a surge in increased membership in the NAACP after WWI. In 1919 the NAACP launched a campaign for a federal law against lynching. Lynching is where a a mob takes the law into their own hands and illegally kills an accused person. Lynching was a serious problem when the NAACP emerged and it continued for quite sometime. In fact, quite a few of the African American soldiers, who had served under the French in WWI, were lynched after coming back from the war. The NAACP is still around today and has numerous members, it is also one of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organizations.