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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 National Negro Committee (formed: New York City, May 31 and June 1, 1909 – ceased: New York City, May 12, 1910) was created in response to the Springfield race riot of 1908 against the black community in Springfield, Illinois.
It was a project of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), founded in 1909. Recently the group had been working to publicize and try to end the continued lynchings, mostly of black men. In April they released a report, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918.
The denomination's membership was around 2 percent African American, and because of this, the NAACP challenged the stations' license renewal with the FCC. [11] The Commission questioned the licensee's affirmative recruitment efforts, noting its reasons for failing to recruit had a direct adverse impact on the recruitment of African Americans.
Race and radicalism: the NAACP and the Communist Party and conflict. (ISBN 0012868949 / 0-01-286894-9). Goings, Kenneth W. (1990). NAACP Comes of age: the defeat of Judge John J. Parker (blacks in the Diaspora). (ISBN 9780253325853). Harris, Jacqueline L. History and achievement of the NAACP (the African American experience). (ISBN 9780531110355).
The NAACP Utica-Oneida County Chapter held a recognition for its poet laureate and youth poet laureate, at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Oneida County NAACP honors poets laureate in ...
Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer who is the current president and CEO of the NAACP. [1] He had previously served as president of its Mississippi state chapter, [2] and vice chairman of its board of directors. [1]
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