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Passing traffic honked and waved in support for 5+ hours during the protest. FIEL's Executive Director, Cesar Espinosa, and NAACP Houston chapter President, Bishop James Dixon, closed out the protest with speeches and a spiritual closing ceremony by Danza Azteca Capulli TecuanCoyotl.
The NAACP Texas State Conference saved 608,470 votes with a victorious decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [32] The NAACP North Carolina State Conference saved nearly five percent of the electorate when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the state legislature had enacted discriminatory voting ...
Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas chapter of the NAACP, described the April layoffs and closing of the Division of Campus and Community Engagement as a “second cut” of implementation, since ...
NAACP representatives E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen Gill Spottswood meeting with President Kennedy at the White House in 1961. At the NAACP, Johnson works closely with the national staff, including Wisdom Cole, the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division for the Association.
In a joint statement April 2, Texas NAACP and Texas AAUP expressed "urgent concern" for UT's decision, writing that all staff were now in roles that were compliant with SB 17, and calling for the ...
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 University of Texas at Austin has sent layoff notices to an estimated 60 staff members who previously worked in diversity, equity and inclusion roles, according to the Texas NAACP and the ...
Lulu (or Lula) Belle Madison White (August 31, 1907 [citation needed] – July 6, 1957) was a teacher and civil rights activist in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s. [1] In 1939, White was named as the president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before becoming executive secretary of the branch in 1943. [2]