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The largest NAACP Youth Council during the Civil Rights Movement was the Peekskill, NY NAACP Youth Council from 1955 to 1956. The Council had over 400 members and over 80% were white. The President was Offie Wortham. The largest NAACP College Chapter during the Movement was the Antioch College NAACP College Chapter in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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.
He joined the youth division of the NAACP and worked to register voters in order to help the election of John F. Kennedy, and befriended activist Medgar Evers. [3] He later earned his bachelor's degree in music education from Tougaloo College and his master's degree from Miami University of Ohio . [ 3 ]
Tiffany Dena Loftin is the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division at the NAACP.She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. [1] She was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans in Higher Education.
NAACP representatives E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen Gill Spottswood meeting with President Kennedy at the White House in 1961. At the NAACP, Johnson works closely with the national staff, including Wisdom Cole, the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division for the Association.
Jones' surname means "King Joseph" (Malik and Yusuf, respectively) in Arabic [citation needed] He was raised in Chicago's South Side neighborhood, known as the "Wild 100's", [2] where he became affiliated with the Blackstone Rangers street gang; he is no longer involved in gang activity. [3]
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited-series). The award was first given during the 1996 ceremony and called Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special. It was later renamed to award performances by young ...
Youth Brigade is an American hardcore punk band formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 1980 by brothers Mark, Adam, and Shawn Stern. The band then founded BYO (Better Youth Organization). [ 2 ] Many later punk bands cite Youth Brigade as an influence, including The Nation of Ulysses [ 4 ] and The Briefs .