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It provided a place for social justice in local Austin media. The paper gave a voice to Central Texas' political activists who were challenging the laws and customs that oppressed people because of "their skin color, religion, sexual choice, gender identity, age, size or income," said Nelson Linder, the president of the Austin chapter of the NAACP.
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.
Volma Robert Overton (September 26, 1924 – October 31, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist and president of NAACP's Austin, Texas chapter from 1962 to 1983. [2] [3] He is best known for his legal efforts to end racial segregation in Austin schools. [4] Overton was born in Maha in the rural southeast of Travis County. [4]
BASTROP — An NAACP official and relatives are asking for more information to be released about the investigation into the shooting death of 41-year-old Steven Smith in Bastrop County on Sept. 13.
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Nelson Linder, President, Austin NAACP [13] Greg Smith. Organizations. Save Austin Now [14] Proposition A (November) Proposition A was a bond election.
As President-elect Joe Biden‘s nominee for Defense Secretary, Gen. Lloyd Austin, faces a challenge to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the NAACP and other prominent Black organizations are ...
He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Pearson Sr and graduated from New Stanton High School in 1947. He attended Tillatson College in Austin, Texas on a baseball scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1951. He and his future wife, Mary Ann Johnson, were classmates with Medgar Evers at Tillatson. [1]