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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.
Pages in category "African Americans' rights organizations" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In African-American history, the National Negro Congress (NNC; 1936–ca. 1946) was an African-American organization formed in 1936 [1] [2] at Howard University as a broadly based coalition organization with the goal of fighting for Black liberation; it subsumed the League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
African American Policy Forum; African Civilization Society; African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80; Afro-American Association; Alliance of Black Jews; Alpha Kappa Mu; List of Alpha Kappa Mu chapters; American Tennis Association; Ariel Investments; Atlanta Sociological Laboratory; Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh ...
The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was a United States civil rights organization, formed in 1946 at a national conference for radicals and disbanded in 1956. It succeeded the International Labor Defense , the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties , and the National Negro Congress , serving as a defense organization.
After the civil rights movement gains of the 1950s–1970s, due to government neglect, unfavorable social policies, high poverty rates, changes implemented in the criminal justice system and laws, and a breakdown in traditional family units, African-American communities have been suffering from extremely high incarceration rates.
OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...
Civil Rights Act of 1982 - Established uniform procedures for the enforcement by the Federal Government of civil rights laws. [2] Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 - mandated that all recipients of federal funds must comply with civil rights; Civil Rights Act of 1991 - Provided right to trial by jury in employment discrimination lawsuits.