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NAACP representatives E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen Gill Spottswood meeting with President Kennedy at the White House in 1961. At the NAACP, Johnson works closely with the national staff, including Wisdom Cole, the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division for the Association.
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". [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Near his exit youth leaders protested at the National Convention in 2016, stating "We are tired.
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.
As Chairman of the NAACP National board of directors, Russell is charged with setting policy for the National NAACP President and CEO to implement. He outlined the strategy in 2017. [ 25 ] He spent time in Ohio urging young adults to get engaged in the Civil Rights movement .
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 .
The NAACP plans to spend $20 million encouraging Black Americans, a critical voting bloc in the presidential race, to turn out to vote across 12 states. ... NAACP president and CEO, said in a ...
Watch live as Joe Biden returns to the campaign trail with a speech to NAACP in Nevada on Tuesday (16 July) The president will address the NAACP national convention, a major gathering of Black ...
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.