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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.
Williams's involvement with the NAACP started around 1960 when he was in tenth grade at Bonds-Wilson. At that time, he served as president of the North Charleston youth chapter of the NAACP. [ 2 ] In a 2003 interview, he recalled arranging for civil rights lawyer Matthew J. Perry to give a speech for his chapter in 1960, describing it as a ...
Ben Jealous, former NAACP president honors the life and legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis on ‘America’s News HQ.’
Clarence Maurice Mitchell Jr. (March 8, 1911 – March 18, 1984) was an American civil rights activist and was the chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years. [1] [2] He also served as a regional director for the organization.
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 ...
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]