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Rupert Florence Richardson (January 14, 1930 – January 24, 2008) was an American civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as the national president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1992 to 1995, and as the national president emeritus of the NAACP following her term as president.
Disenfranchised citizens throughout the New Orleans area were registered to vote by the NAACP New Orleans Branch. In early 1943, Daniel Byrd became the founding president of the Louisiana State Conference of NAACP Branches in Louisiana. He was later made its first executive secretary, a position that he had held with the New Orleans Branch.
Brimmer was born in Newellton in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, to a family of sharecroppers. [2] He attended racially segregated schools and graduated from the former Tensas Rosenwald High School in St. Joseph, the seat of government of Tensas Parish. He was a classmate of Emmitt Douglas, later the long-term president of the Louisiana NAACP. Tensas ...
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 ...
13 years, 39 days after 11th president James K. Polk (died June 15, 1849) 12 years, 15 days after 12th president Zachary Taylor (died July 9, 1850) 187 days after 10th president John Tyler (died January 18, 1862) 10th president John Tyler (died January 18, 1862) 12 years, 217 days after 11th president James K. Polk (died June 15, 1849)
Nov. 1—Henry Allen Jr., a former president of the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP and civil rights advocate, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 67. A 24-year veteran of the U.S ...
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 ...
Toward the end of 1961 Rudy Lombard departed, and Oretha Castle was appointed president of the local chapter of CORE. A prominent fellow activist characterized her as "the guiding force . . . the backbone . . . a woman of extraordinary capabilities." [1] With its new notoriety, the New Orleans chapter of CORE attracted a growing membership ...