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Starting on December 5, 1955, NAACP activists, including Edgar Nixon, its local president, and Rosa Parks, who had served as the chapter's Secretary, helped organize a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This was designed to protest segregation on the city's buses, two-thirds of whose riders were black.
The 2005 installation was attended by the Honorable C. Ray Nagin, past national NAACP president Rupert F. Richardson, NAACP Louisiana Conference President Ernest L. Johnson and the presidents of the Dillard University and Xavier University Chapters, NAACP, along with other local and state officials.
In many areas of the Deep South, local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan or other white insurgents operated outside the law, and white-dominated police forces practiced discrimination against Black people. In Jonesboro, an industrial town in northern Louisiana, the KKK harassed local activists, burned crosses on the lawns of Foundational Black ...
The investment, details of which were shared first with NBC News, includes $6 million in funds for local NAACP chapters and partners, $1 million for polling and research, and $1.4 million for ...
The NAACP’s Macon-Bibb County chapter, members of the county election board and voters like Patricia Kitchens have expressed multiple concerns over the past year about accessibility issues at ...
The largest NAACP Youth Council during the Civil Rights Movement was the Peekskill, NY NAACP Youth Council from 1955 to 1956. The Council had over 400 members and over 80% were white. The President was Offie Wortham. The largest NAACP College Chapter during the Movement was the Antioch College NAACP College Chapter in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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