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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 ...
Robert F. Williams. 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.
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 ...
Rachel Dolezal. Nkechi Amare Diallo (born Rachel Anne Dolezal; [a] November 12, 1977 [fn 1]) is an American former college instructor and activist known for presenting herself as a black woman despite being born to white parents. She is also a former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter president.
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.
W. W. Law. Westley Wallace Law (January 1, 1923 – July 29, 2002) was an American civil rights leader from Savannah, Georgia. He was president of the Savannah chapter of the NAACP and made great strides in desegregation through nonviolent resistance from 1950 to 1976, serving as a leader in the Savannah Protest Movement.