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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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Clarence Maurice Mitchell Jr. (March 8, 1911 – March 18, 1984) was an American civil rights activist and was the chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years. [1] [2] He also served as a regional director for the organization.
Ben Jealous, former NAACP president honors the life and legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis on ‘America’s News HQ.’