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NAACPNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore, MD, USA)
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She never disclosed this to the NAACP, even as she testified on behalf of the organization in support of legislation to ease access for the phone company into the lucrative cable industry.
WHERE DOES BUSINESS END, NAACP BEGIN?
During his frequent skirmishes with Oswald Garrison Villard, Walter White, and other NAACP officials, Du Bois could always count on Ovington's support.
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.
Bruce Gordon takes charge: new leader of the NAACP brings a new style to the historic organization
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
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
She joined the national office of the NAACP in the 1940s and went on to become its Director of Branches, revolutionizing the way that organization did business by encouraging the individual branches to organize around the most pressing local issues and by having conferences devoted to teaching community resistance methods (Rosa Parks, who attended the first conference of this kind in Atlanta, has said that it influenced her not to leave her seat on that well-known day).
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a Radical Democratic Vision
By the time she accepted a job as an assistant field secretary for the NAACP in 1940, Baker was a seasoned activist and community organizer.
Mentor to a generation
The NAACP graded telecommunications companies in five general areas: employment, advertising and marketing spending, service deployment, vendor spending and charitable giving.
BELLSOUTH RANKS FIRST ON NAACP REPORT CARD
unconsciously, the NAACP, the guise of the public interest, and their
The production of pro bono
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, has been built on the individual and collective courage of untold numbers of people--individuals of all races nationalities and religious denominations, who were united on one premise: that all men and women are created equal.
The NAACP wants to improve America for everyone
The NAACP is joining with the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (both based in Baltimore) to push Congress to enforce lead abatement laws in high-risk cities.
LAWYERS VS. LEAD
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