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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.
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.
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]
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 next events planned by this committee will be the annual Back-to-School fairs on July 20 and July 27 at the Scarboro Community Center. ... For information on the local NAACP call 865-924-2987 ...
The 56th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, ...
The Portage County NAACP hosted its 12th Annual Freedom Fund event at Northeast Ohio Medical University with a sold-out crowd.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris gave a rousing speech at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California, where she accepted the organization’s ...