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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.
He was chosen to be the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in May 2014. He previously served as president of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark, New Jersey, and as executive director of the Fair Housing Council of Greater Washington. [2] [3]
The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker. Hughes, Langston (1962). Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. Janken, Kenneth Robert. White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP. New York: The New Press, 2003. Jonas, Gilbert S. Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909–1969. London ...
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 16: NAACP President Derrick Johnson speaks while joining plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court after meeting with U.S ...
The new NAACP president was born in Detroit, and spent much of his childhood across the street from the original Hartford Memorial Baptist Church at Hartford and Milford on the west side. His ...
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 ...
New Orleans Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Abbreviation: NAACP New Orleans Branch: Formation: Chartered July 15, 1915: Purpose "To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."
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 .