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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.
Utah's first and only Jewish governor New Mexico: Arthur Seligman [1] Democratic: January 1, 1931: September 25, 1933: New Mexico's first Jewish governor Oregon: Julius Meier [1] Independent: January 12, 1931: January 14, 1935: Oregon's first Jewish governor New York: Herbert Lehman [1] Democratic: January 1, 1933: December 3, 1942: New York's ...
Karen Lewis (labor leader) (1953–2021), educator and labor leader [30] Leon L. Lewis (1888–1954), attorney and spy who infiltrated and disrupted American Nazi movements before and during World War II , and who served as the first national secretary of the Anti-Defamation League
This week's Free Press Flashback is from the archive, a 1984 interview with Rev. Charles G. Adams shortly after becoming president of the NAACP.
Schmidt served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, while managing to hide his Jewish roots from the Nazi regime. [107] Árpád Göncz, a former president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000, had a Jewish maternal grandfather. [108] Although most head of states with Jewish ancestry come from Europe and Latin America, some are from other regions of the World.
From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, the civil rights movement organized to obtain legalized racial equality and justice in the United States. Rooted in the aftermath of slavery and segregation, the movement sought to highlight, discuss, and dismantle legalized discrimination based on race by, amongst other things, studying and applying the words of the Sermon on the Mount, the documents of ...
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 ]
The founder of an influential anti-crime group was sentenced to 17 years in prison Wednesday for raping a teenage girl placed in his care as a result of his prominent position in Brooklyn’s ...