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Scott was a founding member of the Norwich Branch of the NAACP in 1963; by the 1970s, she was president. She established an NAACP job bank program in 1973, helping hundreds of African American residents gain employment. [3] Scott's leadership was instrumental in improving race relations at the Norwich Free Academy during the 1970s. Concurrent ...
The NAACP is launching original podcast series “Our Culture, Our Stories,” promising intimate and “unfiltered” conversations with an array of media and entertainment luminaries about ...
The Norwich, CT chapter of the NAACP honored Lembo with its 2019 Robertsine Duncan Memorial Award given to an individual or organization for outstanding efforts to ensure quality education for children while being an advocate on behalf of the community, city and state. [23]
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.
On Saturday, the remaining winners of the 55th annual NAACP Image Awards were announced during a televised ceremony hosted by Queen Latifah. In the run-up to Saturday's show, the winners of some ...
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The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Nov. 5—NORWICH — Swaranjit Singh Khalsa, a Democratic Board of Education member who was the second highest vote-getter for the City Council in Tuesday's election, said he is slated to be the ...