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In a statement, the NAACP announced that Johnson was elected president to guide "the Association through a period of re-envisioning and reinvigoration." [ 2 ] On June 30, 2020, with Mayor Muriel Bowser 's support, the NAACP announced its plans to move its headquarters from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. [ 6 ]
Russell has spent over four decades in various leadership capacities with the NAACP. [7] [8] Under his leadership, the NAACP has taken on environmental and climate justice as civil and human rights issues. [9] In 2023, Russell presented Congressman Bennie Thompson with the NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award.
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.
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. At a time of high racial tension and ...
In 1951 he was promoted to Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau, serving 1951–1954. [12] In 1952 Walter White, president of the NAACP, set up the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a coalition of civil rights, civic, labor, religious, and fraternal organizations to manage political operations in Washington for civil rights.
Under the leadership of Foward, the Dayton Unit NAACP has been awarded the Thalheimer Award for 10 years in a row (2012 – 2019; 2022 – 2024), except the two COVID-19 years (2020 & 2021) when the NAACP did not accept nominations.
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May 24 – A group of Black leaders (assembled by James Baldwin) meets with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to discuss race relations. May 29 – Violence escalates at NAACP picket of Philadelphia construction site. [24] May 30 – Police attack Florida A&M anti-segregation demonstrators with tear gas; arrest 257, in Tallahassee, Florida. [25]