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The history of the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Monterey County involves the founding of two Branches of the NAACP – the Monterey Peninsula Branch and the Salinas Branch. The first of those two branches – the Monterey Peninsula Branch - was founded in 1932. Its primary founder was the Reverend Wellington Smith, Sr. then the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Pacific Grove, the oldest Black church in the Central California Region.
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