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In January 1912, upon learning that Lewis was black, the ABA's executive committee voted to rescind his membership. That August, they rescinded the memberships of Wilson and Morris as well. [4] [5] Members of the Boston NAACP and the Massachusetts Bar Association mounted a vigorous defense of the two Boston attorneys.
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.
On July 16, 1974, Atkins was named interim president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [18] He was elected to a full two-year term on December 18, 1974. [19] As a Boston's NAACP President, Atkins was a central figure during contentious battle over desegregation busing in Boston. [2]
The convention begins Wednesday; activities include a block party on Friday, and panel discussions during the weekend.
Albert Enoch Pillsbury (August 19, 1849 – December 23, 1930) was a Boston lawyer who served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, president of the Massachusetts State Senate, and as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1891 to 1894.
Ruth Batson, in her work with the Boston Branch of the NAACP, spearheaded the effort for school desegregation in Boston. Jean McGuire , executive director of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO, Inc.) and the first female African American to gain a seat on the Boston School Committee at Large right after the Boston ...
ADAMS has vowed to increase NAACP membership, which in 1984 reached 19,252 in Detroit. He also envisions an NAACP effort to pressure government officials to slow drug traffic in the city.
In April 1957, she became the chairwoman of the New England Regional Conference of the NAACP, [6] where she worked as a civil rights lobbyist. In the early 1960s, she challenged the Boston School Committee, charging that Boston Public Schools were largely segregated.