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Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955.
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 ]
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.
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.
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.
Leon W. Russell (born 1949/1950) [1] is an African-American civil rights leader and a human rights executive. He was elected to succeed Roslyn Brock as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People board of directors on February 18, 2017.
Barber was born in Indianapolis to Eleanor Barber and William J. Barber, Sr, [4] who then moved their young family to Washington County, North Carolina, to participate in the desegregation of the public school system there: his mother as a secretary/office manager, his father as a physics teacher, and young Barber as a kindergarten student.
At his memorial service, he was eulogized by Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP. Buell C. Gallagher, retired president of the City College of New York , called him "the rallying center of the aggressive forward movement" of the NAACP.