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The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Mary Church Terrell, and the previously named whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former slave-holding family), [26] [27] Florence Kelley, a ...
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955.
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson.Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
The Stark County chapter of the NAACP appreciates the opportunity to address Black History Month. The NAACP was created on the centennial of President Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 9, 1909, by Black ...
The first nursery school in the United States was created through women's clubs and club members in Chicago. [100] The Woman's Club of El Paso started the first kindergarten in the state of Texas in 1893. [127] [128] Women's clubs were often involved with creating schools for delinquent boys and girls.
President of the Chester, Pennsylvania, branch of the NAACP George T. Raymond (May 10, 1914 – May 9, 1999) was an American civil rights leader from Pennsylvania who served as president of the Chester, Pennsylvania , branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1942 to 1977. [ 1 ]
(The Detroit branch was founded in 1910.) "He was called militant and radical, just because he had Paul Robeson in to give concerts in the '40s and '50s," Mr. Adams said.
Along with Du Bois and Trotter, Fredrick McGhee of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Charles Edwin Bentley of Chicago also recognized the need for a national activist group. [12] The foursome organized a conference to be held July 11–13, 1905, in Buffalo, New York. 59 carefully selected anti-Bookerites were invited to attend; 29 showed up, including prominent community leaders and a notable number of ...