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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.
A group of artists, along with the NAACP, planned a re-enactment of the silent march in New York for the evening on July 28, 2017. [42] The event, with around 100 people and many participants wearing white, was not able to march down Fifth Avenue because the city would not grant access due to Trump Tower being located there. [43]
They had these demonstrations in seventy-eight different cities all over the United States. [5] According to Noralee Frankel, the anti-lynching movement originated during the Reconstruction era, following the Civil War. It cannot be described only as a result of the reforms during the Progressive Era. [6]
The NAACP, which had helped fund and commission the defense team, strengthened its reputation for working on behalf of African Americans. Walter F. White, the NAACP field secretary who had investigated the riot in the field, gained renown for his reporting on the massacre, including its high number of black fatalities. He later served for ...
A map of Europe as it appeared in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna. This article gives a detailed listing of all the countries, including puppet states, that have existed in Europe since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the present day. Each country has information separated into columns: name of the distinct country, its lifespan, the ...
The mural painted on the side of a Montgomery, Alabama building represents more than brush strokes. "I feel like there are elements in the Democratic party that want to redefine the Republican ...
The lawsuit from the NAACP’s state chapter, Common Cause and several individual Black voters is the latest to challenge new districts enacted in late October that cement Republican power in the ...
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