Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
As Chairman of the NAACP National board of directors, Russell is charged with setting policy for the National NAACP President and CEO to implement. He outlined the strategy in 2017. [ 25 ] He spent time in Ohio urging young adults to get engaged in the Civil Rights movement .
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Born in Camden, New Jersey, Gordon's parents were both active in the civil rights movement.A 1968 graduate of Gettysburg College, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and a 1988 Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) graduate of the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Derrick Lee Foward (born April 26, 1968) is an American social activist and leader in the US civil rights movement.Foward is a NAACP Image Award winning activist and a Dayton, Ohio, native.