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NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous and former president Bill Clinton during the Medgar Evers wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington, June 5, 2013 Youth The NAACP Youth & College Division is a branch of the NAACP in which youth are actively involved.
He worked with President Harry S. Truman on desegregating the armed forces after World War II and gave him a draft for the Executive Order to implement this. [3] Under White's leadership, the NAACP set up its Legal Defense Fund, which conducted numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. [4]
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]
President George W. Bush made his first appearance at the NAACP on July 20, 2006, half-way through his second term. [2] After having declined to address the organization for most of his presidency, it was Gordon's "moderate" political views that led Bush to acquiesce to the appearance, according to White House spokesman Tony Snow .
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.
During Jealous's tenure, the number of NAACP's online activists increased from 175,000 to more than 675,000; its donors increased from 16,000 individuals to more than 132,000; and the number of total NAACP activists was 1.7 million. [24] [25] Jealous led the NAACP to work closely with other civil rights, labor and environmental groups.
From 1989 to 1992, Dukes served as the national president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Dukes was also made president of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation (NYCOTB) in 1990, twenty-five years after she had been doing social work there.
The Nation termed the NAACP's Democracy Awakening protest, "The Most Important Protest of the 2016 Election". [36] Brooks was praised for how he handled allegations that Rachel Dolezal, former president of the NAACP's Spokane, WA chapter, was a