NAACP founded / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrested - February 12

On this day in 1909, an interracial group of American leaders met in New York to call for an organization that would fight for African American civil and political rights. This event is considered the founding meeting of the NAACP. / On this day in 1974, Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and charged with treason.

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