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In a statement, the NAACP announced that Johnson was elected president to guide "the Association through a period of re-envisioning and reinvigoration." [ 2 ] On June 30, 2020, with Mayor Muriel Bowser 's support, the NAACP announced its plans to move its headquarters from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. [ 6 ]
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.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] The incumbent president is Donald Trump , who assumed office on January 20, 2025 . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 47 presidencies; the discrepancy arises because of Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump, who were ...
SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker Edison Uno: 1929 1976 United States: leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II Wyatt Tee Walker: 1928 2018 United States: activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC: Dorothy Cotton: 1930 2018 United States: SCLC official, activist, organizer, and ...
Aliane Murphy-Hasan, a lifetime member and former vice president of the Sacramento chapter, said state NAACP leaders were concerned with the findings of the annual audit of the local branch, but ...
Rupert Florence Richardson (January 14, 1930 – January 24, 2008) was an American civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as the national president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1992 to 1995, and as the national president emeritus of the NAACP following her term as president.
J. B. Martin (1885–1973), president of the Negro American League, owner of the Chicago American Giants; James W. Mason (1841–1871), legislator from Arkansas; Omarosa Manigault Newman (born 1974), Assistant to President Donald Trump January 3, 2017 to January 20, 2018. Democrat prior to 2015, Republican 2015 to 2019, Independent since 2019.
President Reagan on the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Nov. 1, 1984, with some of the senior members of his campaign and White House staff, including Stu Spencer, who is ...