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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer who is the current president and CEO of the NAACP. [1] He had previously served as president of its Mississippi state chapter, [2] and vice chairman of its board of directors. [1]
He worked with President Harry S. Truman on desegregating the armed forces after World War II and gave him a draft for the Executive Order to implement this. [3] Under White's leadership, the NAACP set up its Legal Defense Fund, which conducted numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. [4]
In 2017, Foward lobbied Congresswoman Joyce Beatty on several NAACP legislative priorities, along with Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP Sr. VP of advocacy and policy and director of the Washington Bureau and Tom Roberts, former Ohio State Senator and current president of the Ohio Conference NAACP. In November of that year, Foward announced that the ...
During the NAACP's 2014 convention, where Vice President Joe Biden addressed delegates about voter suppression, Brooks called for an NAACP "one million members strong". [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Near his exit youth leaders protested at the National Convention in 2016, stating "We are tired.
During Jealous's tenure, the number of NAACP's online activists increased from 175,000 to more than 675,000; its donors increased from 16,000 individuals to more than 132,000; and the number of total NAACP activists was 1.7 million. [24] [25] Jealous led the NAACP to work closely with other civil rights, labor and environmental groups.
Mfume and Dayton, Ohio NAACP President Derrick L. Foward meet for the first time at the NAACP National Convention, 2017. In February 1996, Mfume left the House to accept the presidency of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), saying that he could do more to improve American civil rights there than in Congress. [9]
President George W. Bush made his first appearance at the NAACP on July 20, 2006, half-way through his second term. [2] After having declined to address the organization for most of his presidency, it was Gordon's "moderate" political views that led Bush to acquiesce to the appearance, according to White House spokesman Tony Snow .