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Jan. 2—The Wilkes-Barre branch of the NAACP has issued a statement "to the members of the Crestwood School District Board of Education" calling for newly appointed member Robert Derwin to resign ...
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) [1] was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants.
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.
More: Columbus NAACP president facing challenge from local attorney, City Council members The mission and movement are greater than any individual, including one seeking office who has not been ...
The Houston County Board of Elections reversed a decision to disqualify a school board candidate after an emergency meeting Thursday. The reversal came just two days after the board disqualified ...
In 1980, he succeeded Nathaniel R. Jones as general counsel of the NAACP. [23] In 1983, Atkins was named executive director of the NAACP by Chairperson Margaret Bush Wilson. However, the organization's board of directors sided with suspended executive director Benjamin Hooks and Hooks was reinstated. [24]
The Springfield NAACP is calling for immediate action by the Republic school district after another student came forward to report racist slurs, racially motivated harassment and threats of violence.
Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Dennis Courtland Hayes (born January 29, 1951) was General Counsel as well as the interim President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 2005 and from 2007 to 2008.