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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.
The investment, details of which were shared first with NBC News, includes $6 million in funds for local NAACP chapters and partners, $1 million for polling and research, and $1.4 million for ...
As the local attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Benjamin L. Hooks, "Birth and Separation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund", Crisis 1979 86(6): 218–220. 0011-1422 Tureaud successfully obtained equal pay for Louisiana's African American teachers and the admission of qualified students to state ...
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 NAACP’s Macon-Bibb County chapter, members of the county election board and voters like Patricia Kitchens have expressed multiple concerns over the past year about accessibility issues at ...
The NAACP and other community leaders were critical of the arrest. CMPD officers also held a community forum this week in an effort to improve the department’s relationship with the public.
Each of the 26 local chapters provides philanthropic services and financial support to causes within the geographic region. At the national level, the organization donates to member-agreed causes including the MLK Memorial , Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture , NAACP Legal Defense Fund , Lupus Foundation , and ...
In many areas of the Deep South, local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan or other white insurgents operated outside the law, and white-dominated police forces practiced discrimination against Black people. In Jonesboro, an industrial town in northern Louisiana, the KKK harassed local activists, burned crosses on the lawns of Foundational Black ...