TILL EARTH AND HEAVEN RING.

This article presents information regarding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). That vitality, rare indeed in American political culture at the start of the twenty-first century, is the strength of the NAACP. Its Philadelphia branch, with 14,000 members, is one piece of a mosaic that makes up the U.S.' largest grassroots organization, its 500,000 members, who pay dues of $30 a year, are organized into more than 2,200 branches. It is a potentially vast social and political force, but one that has been allowed to atrophy over the past generation, since the peak years of the civil rights movement in the 1960's, and it is only just beginning to recover.