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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.
Juanita Jackson, a Baltimore NAACP activist, lobbied hard for the formation of a new youth program, and in 1935, the NAACP Board voted to establish a new youth division, formed in 1936 as the Youth and College Division, and helmed by Jackson. From 1935 to 1938, Jackson also worked as special assistant to White, stating that White had asked her ...
The National Negro Committee held its first meeting in New York on May 31 and June 1, 1909. [2] By May 1910, the National Negro Committee and attendants, at its second conference, organized a permanent body known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ovington was appointed as its executive secretary.
In 1988 he founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in the city, devoted to African-American history from slavery to the present. Cameron was a survivor of a lynching attempt, which occurred when he was a 16-year-old suspect in a murder/robbery case in Marion, Indiana ; two older teenagers were killed by the mob.
His gift with oratory is well-known; after his election as NAACP president, even former opponents praised him. Rev. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, became the NAACP's ...
They issued a call to progressives, and many people responded. They formed the National Negro Committee, which held its first meeting in New York on May 31 and June 1, 1909, at the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side. [4] The group leaders initially tried to get the famous Booker T. Washington to attend meetings to gain popularity.
On December 29, 1924, [1] Turner founded (and was elected president of) the Federated Colored Catholics, an organization that he said was "composed of Catholic Negroes who placed their services at the disposal of the Church for whatever good they were able to effect in the solution of the problems facing the group in Church and country". [5]
At the time, the civil rights movement of the early ’60s had given birth to the Black Power movement of the late ’60s, and Black Americans were still mourning the 1968 assassination of Martin ...