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Anthony Spearman, the former president of the North Carolina NAACP and a well-known social justice figure, has died. His family confirmed that Spearman, 71, died Tuesday in Greensboro. “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.
September 6, 2024 at 2:54 PM. North Carolina Rep. Kelly Alexander, who represented Charlotte in the legislature for over a decade and once served as president of the state NAACP, has died at 75. A ...
A civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide in his Greensboro home The post Autopsy: Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Legal Defense Fund, or LDF) is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City. LDF is wholly independent and separate from the NAACP. [1] Although LDF can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the ...
Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American civil rights leader, environmentalist and executive director of the Sierra Club. He served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 2008 to 2013. When he was selected to head the NAACP at age 35, he ...
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 ...
From fighting to integrate North Carolina’s schools to suing the state over laws that affected Black voters, the state chapter of the NAACP has remained a key player in civil rights activism.