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"At the NAACP's annual meeting in the ballroom of the New York Hilton, Meyers rose following a member's speech calling for a boycott of the New York Post but also of all the national enterprises of its owner, Rupert Murdock.
New Hentoff Column Sheds Light on NAACP's Fight Against 'New York Post'
In less than a year as president, he has made converts out of his critics both within the NAACP and outside it, and he has modernized the organization by drawing young, gifted and black talent.
The other black president: the NAACP confronts a new political--and racial--era
The immediate trigger for the birth of the NAACP was a race riot in August 1908 in Springfield, Illinois--symbolically significant as the place Abraham Lincoln called 'home'.
The long road to equality: despite the rise of Barack Obama, many African-Americans still feel like second-class citizens. John Kirk charts the progress of the civil rights movement through its most prominent body, the NAACP, which celebrates its centenary this year
The NAACP uses the scores to measure the efforts of major corporations in the areas of hiring, promotion, procurement, philanthropy, and marketing in hopes of creating a more enlightened consumer base.
BELLSOUTH CORPORATION SCORES HIGHEST ON 2006 NAACP REPORT CARD
While at the NAACP, Du Bois and another board member, "the beautiful, well-educated author and social worker from New York," Mary White Ovington, began what became a lifelong friendship.
Raymond Wolters. Du Bois and His Rivals
DuBois, Thurgood Marshall and Julian Bond, the NAACP has diminished some of the most overt threats to equality," says Gordon, who succeeded Kweisi Mfume, a former U.S.
Bruce Gordon takes charge: new leader of the NAACP brings a new style to the historic organization
D.) Nixon, president of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP
The legacy of Rosa Parks
And his insider's discourse on NAACP notables coping with critical legal and race issues--and coping with each other-is unique, a rare historical glimpse.
A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in Cause of Equal Rights
The question arises: why care about the NAACP if the court victories were due to the Legal Defense Fund and the direct action successes were due to the SCLC (Southern Chritian Leadership Conference), CORE (Congress of Radial Equality), and like organizations.
Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969
Members adopted the slogan, "The Movement is Moving." A mass-based religiously orientated Civil Rights Movement had started in Birmingham, and this movement, more militant than the NAACP, was made up of pastors and church people who were convinced that God would give them the victory over the forces of segregation in the city.
Black Baptist women and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1963: historians and journalists during and immediately after the Civil Rights Movement emphasized the role of religion in the movement. They showed how the black church and its leaders provided the charisma, finance, inspiration, spiritual nurture, and the foot soldiers that made the movement successful
Bolin moved up the organizational ranks of the NAACP almost as quickly as she did the professional ranks of her career.
Persona non-grata: Judge Jane Matilda Bolin and the NAACP, 1930-1950
The actor is in the country as a part of a delegation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 'Jamestown to Jamestown'.
Danny Glover in Ghana for 'Jamestown to Jamestown'
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