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Tyler Perry donates $1 million to the NAACP. This is the largest donation ever made by a single person to a civil rights group.

Perry’s gift was in commemoration with the NAACP’s centennial anniversary. It will be paid over the next four years.

NAACP chairman Julian Bond said, “Tyler is a courageous pioneer in bringing positive images of African American culture and struggles to the big screen.”

Perry is a film director and a comic actor, whose work includes the recent “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” which stars Taraji P. Henson as an alcoholic who falls in love with a handyman.

Perry is also a writer and a producer. His various works in stage plays, DVDs and movies usually touch on the everyday characters in black households.

Among Perry’s characters that he made popular was “Madea,” a large grandmother who plays a big part in “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea’s Family Reunion,” and “Madea Goes to Jail” movies.

(via Reuters)