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Education. Atlanta University (BA) Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955. He directed a broad program of legal challenges to racial segregation and disfranchisement.
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. [4][5][6] Over the ...
Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Died. July 15, 1951. (1951-07-15) (aged 86) Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, U.S. Education. Harvard University. Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951) was an American socialist, suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Myrlie Evers-Williams. Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as chairwoman of the NAACP, and published several books on ...
William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter (April 7, 1872 – April 7, 1934), was a newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts. An activist for African-American civil rights, he was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian ...
2 January 2000. Dena Thompson (born 1960), [1] commonly known as The Black Widow, [2] is a British convicted murderer, confidence trickster [3] and bigamist who is also suspected of having killed a second individual. [4] She habitually met men through lonely hearts columns and stole their money. [5] She was imprisoned for murdering former media ...
Brockton, Massachusetts. Nationality. American. Known for. civic activist and leader. Florence Ruth LeSueur[1] (March 17, 1898 – June 27, 1991) [2] was an African-American civic leader, activist and the first woman president of an NAACP chapter. She was a champion of black rights in employment and education.
women's rights activist. Spouse. James W. Stewart. . . (m. 1826; died 1829) . Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American teacher, journalist, abolitionist and lecturer known for her role in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements in the United States. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed ...