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  2. Derrick Johnson (activist) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. List of assassinated human rights activists - Wikipedia

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    American civil rights leader and minister Midnight, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Lamar Smith: 1955: 13 August American civil rights leader, farmer, and veteran Brookhaven, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Dr. Thomas Hency Brewer: 1956: 18 February American co-founder of an NAACP chapter Columbus, Georgia United ...

  4. NAACP - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Ruth Batson - Wikipedia

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    Batson was the first black woman on the Democratic National Committee and the first woman elected president of the NAACP's New England Regional Conference, serving from 1957 to 1960. [ 2 ] After serving as chairwoman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination from 1963 to 1966, she helped launched the Metropolitan Council for ...

  6. Robert F. Williams - Wikipedia

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    Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and ...

  7. Autopsy: Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide - AOL

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    A civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide in his Greensboro home The post Autopsy: Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide ...

  8. Free Press Flashback: The Rev. Charles Adams' first days as ...

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    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. Free Press Flashback: The Rev. Charles Adams' first ...

  9. Murder of Wharlest Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Exerlena Jackson, Wharlest Jackson's wife, later commented "I begged him not to take that job". Just two years earlier, the same circumstances had befallen a friend of the Jackson family, Metcalfe. He was the president of the local chapter of the NAACP and Wharlest worked under him as its treasurer. After receiving a promotion at Armstrong ...

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