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Paul Parks (1923–2009), the first African-American Secretary of Education for the state of Massachusetts; also a civil rights activist, and president of the Boston NAACP; Deval Patrick (born 1956), 71st governor of Massachusetts (was educated in Boston, worked in Boston) M. Lee Pelton (b. 1950), president of Emerson College
The rift with the NAACP grew larger in 1934 when Du Bois reversed his stance on segregation, stating that "separate but equal" was an acceptable goal for African Americans. [230] The NAACP leadership was stunned, and asked Du Bois to retract his statement, but he refused, and the dispute led to Du Bois's resignation from the NAACP. [231]
Louise Day Hicks, an American politician and lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for her staunch opposition to desegregation in Boston Public Schools, and especially to court-ordered busing in the 1960s and 1970s [72] Joe Moakley, a Democratic congressman from the Ninth District of Massachusetts. He won the seat from incumbent Louise ...
William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter (April 7, 1872 – April 7, 1934), was a newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government."
While at Harvard, Atkins served as executive secretary of Boston's NAACP office. [6] During the mid-1960s, he also hosted a Saturday talk show on Boston's Black radio station, WILD, where he discussed current events that affected the Black community. [7] His co-host was Lovell Dyett, who later went on to become a talk show host on WBZ Radio. [8]
Hazel Dukes, a prominent civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, died Saturday. She was 92. Dukes died peacefully at her home in New York City surrounded by her ...
Florence LeSueur was the first to head a Boston-wide education committee under the NAACP. [3] [better source needed] From 1948 until 1951 she served as the president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and was the first woman president of a branch in the nation.