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Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded by Johnson in November 1951 of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois, [3] [4] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
GQ Magazine reported that under Derrick Johnson's leadership, "the nation's foremost and oldest civil rights organization landed a huge win in its Supreme Court case — Trump v. NAACP — that prevents Donald Trump's administration from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young immigrants."
Truth, born into slavery, was an American abolitionist and activist for African American civil rights in the 1800s. Along with the memorial in Akron, she is also the first African American woman ...
As a president, he supported the civil rights efforts in nearby St. Augustine that led to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. [ 2 ] He was featured on the cover of JET magazine on April 20, 1964, with the headline "Former Baseball Star Leads Jacksonville Civil Rights Struggle."
The National Afro-American Press Association was founded in 1890 in Indianapolis with Timothy Thomas Fortune elected as chairman, in response to the large number of African American Newspapers entering circulation, and provided membership to newspapers and journalists who were publishing "in the interest of the Afro-American race."
Many protests during the civil rights movement were a response to police brutality, including the 1965 Watts riots which resulted in the deaths of 34 people, mostly African Americans. [43] The largest post-civil rights movement protest in the 20th-century was the 1992 Los Angeles riots , which were in response to the acquittal of police ...
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion ...
Beginning in the mid-1970s, advertisers created customized ads for the magazine which featured African-American models using their products. [19] In 1985, Ebony Man, a monthly men's magazine was created, printing the first issue in September 1985. [5] By Ebony's 40th anniversary in November 1985, it had a circulation of 1.7 million. [14]