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Starting on December 5, 1955, NAACP activists, including Edgar Nixon, its local president, and Rosa Parks, who had served as the chapter's Secretary, helped organize a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This was designed to protest segregation on the city's buses, two-thirds of whose riders were black.
Starting in March 1960, the local NAACP chapter began to sponsor weekly meetings at local black churches to keep their members informed about ongoings in the broader civil rights movement. [51] Around this time, many young activists in the city were interested in replicating the Greensboro sit-ins , [ 3 ] a nonviolent protest that had begun in ...
Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and ...
The investment, details of which were shared first with NBC News, includes $6 million in funds for local NAACP chapters and partners, $1 million for polling and research, and $1.4 million for ...
The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and five students filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the school board in Shenandoah County after the six-person body approved a proposal restoring the names ...
The NAACP’s Macon-Bibb County chapter, members of the county election board and voters like Patricia Kitchens have expressed multiple concerns over the past year about accessibility issues at ...
New Orleans, Louisiana. TEL: 504-822-8512. FAX: 504-821-3131. President. Atty. Danatus N. King Sr. Website. neworleansnaacp.org. The New Orleans Branch is the oldest continuously active branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [1] south of Washington D.C. It was formally chartered on July 15, 1915.
NAACP in Kentucky. NAACP in Kentucky is very active with branches all over the state, largest being in Louisville and Lexington. The Kentucky State Conference of NAACP continues today to fight against injustices and for the equality of all people. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909 as a civil ...