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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.
He worked with President Harry S. Truman on desegregating the armed forces after World War II and gave him a draft for the Executive Order to implement this. [3] Under White's leadership, the NAACP set up its Legal Defense Fund, which conducted numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. [4]
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.
[2] [3] He previously also served as the 1st vice president (2019 – Present); 2nd vice president (2017 – 2019); 3rd vice president (2009 – 2017); and Executive Committee Member (2003 – 2009) of the NAACP. Foward also serves on the NAACP National Life Membership Committee and has served as the chair of the NAACP National Credentials ...
SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker Edison Uno: 1929 1976 United States: leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II Wyatt Tee Walker: 1928 2018 United States: activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC: Dorothy Cotton: 1930 2018 United States: SCLC official, activist, organizer, and ...
His gift with oratory is well-known; after his election as NAACP president, even former opponents praised him. Rev. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, became the NAACP's ...
During the NAACP's 2014 convention, where Vice President Joe Biden addressed delegates about voter suppression, Brooks called for an NAACP "one million members strong". [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Near his exit youth leaders protested at the National Convention in 2016, stating "We are tired.
Harry Tyson Moore (November 16, 1905 – December 25, 1951) was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida, and president of the state chapter of the NAACP.