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In an interview with GQ Magazine, Derrick Johnson expressed that the NAACP does not endorse Presidential candidates. [7] However, when asked about Donald Trump, Johnson opined that he has not "seen a single president as bad as Trump." [7] On June 10, 2020, the NAACP hosted a virtual town hall with former Vice President Joe Biden. [8]
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.
He served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 2008 to 2013. When he was selected to head the NAACP at age 35, he became the organization's youngest-ever national leader. [4] Jealous ran for governor of Maryland in the 2018 election. [5]
Donald Trump returns Saturday for a campaign rally in North Carolina, where the former president is confronting a mess he played a key role in making in the critical battleground state.
His gift with oratory is well-known; after his election as NAACP president, even former opponents praised him. Rev. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, became the NAACP's ...
Brooks led the NAACP during a period of national turmoil through a three-pronged action plan of polls, protest, and policy. During the NAACP's 2014 convention, where Vice President Joe Biden addressed delegates about voter suppression, Brooks called for an NAACP "one million members strong".
A super PAC supporting former president Donald Trump’s campaign used the entrance of Sen Tim Scott (R - South Carolina) into the 2024 Republican presidential race to hit his main rival, Florida ...
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]