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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Teen Emmett Till Victim Of Kidnapping, Brutal Murder On This Day In 1955 Standing as one of the most-heinous, race-motivated crimes in America’s history, the kidnapping and savage lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till (pictured) in Mississippi still stirs embers of anger in the minds of many who have endured racism and injustice. Considered a transformative moment in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Till’s death shocked a nation and still resonates deeply in the minds of Mississippians and others abroad. SEE ALSO: Remembering The Houston Race Riot Of 1917 The circumstances surrounding Emmett’s death remain murky. His murder was supposedly sparked by Emmett making inappropriate advances toward a 21-year-old White woman, while visiting his mother’s home state in the Mississippi Delta region. Till and Curtis Jones went to buy sweet treats from a local market, Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market. Several accounts have been reported of what Emmett Till actually said to the woman. Watch Emmett’s tragic story here: Black Panther Party Co-Founder Huey P.

Top 10 Examples of NAACP Racism The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) condemned the Tea Party movement last month for alleged bigotry within its ranks. The mainstream always seems extreme to extremists. As the following top-ten list demonstrates, the NAACP, a hotbed of political hotheads in recent years, isn’t the best organization to be lecturing others about extremism. 10. In March 2008, ABC News revealed that Barack Obama’s pastor had preached that African Americans should sing “not God Bless America, God Damn America,” that 9/11 proved that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” and that the U.S. government invented AIDS. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Rather than unnamed “racists” operating on the peripheries, or six-degrees-of-separation logic that lamely attempts to project X’s extremism upon Y, the above examples involve the NAACP’s official acts and duly elected leaders. Isn’t it time for the NAACP to accept responsibility for its own extremism?

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. [ 3 ] Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”. [ 4 ] Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people . The NAACP bestows the annual Image Awards for achievement in the arts and entertainment, and the annual Spingarn Medals for outstanding positive achievement of any kind, on deserving black Americans . It has its headquarters in Baltimore , Maryland. [ 5 ] Organization The NAACP’s headquarters are in Baltimore, Maryland , with additional regional offices in California, New York, Michigan, Colorado, Georgia, Texas and Maryland. [ 6 ] Each regional office is responsible for coordinating the efforts of state conferences in the states included in that region. History

Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools The Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) was an organization formed by a group of socially prominent white women in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas during the Little Rock Crisis in 1958. The organization advocated for the integration of the Little Rock public school system and was a major obstacle to Governor Orval Faubus's efforts to prevent racial integration. The women spoke out in favor of a special election to remove segregationists from the Little Rock school board. The organization was co-founded by Adolphine Fletcher Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell. Books[edit] Breaking the Silence: The Little Rock Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958–1964, by Sara Morphy, 1997, (ISBN 1-55728-456-3) Adapted from the article Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Documentary Film: Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, by Sandra Habbard, 1997. External links[edit]

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Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) The Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) was formed on September 12, 1958, to combat the governor’s closing of Little Rock (Pulaski County) high schools. The first meeting of the organization was held on September 16. During the summer after the 1957 desegregation crisis at Central High School in Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus invoked a recently passed state law and closed the schools to prevent further desegregation. The WEC became the first organization to publicly support reopening the schools under the district’s desegregation plan. Forty-eight women met in September 1958 in the antebellum home of Adolphine Fletcher Terry, the widow of U.S. WEC members continued their efforts. After the loss of the initial election, the WEC refocused its energies, sending out flyers and purchasing newspaper advertisements in support of the schools. WEC members remained vigilant against threats to public education. For additional information:Brewer, Vivion. Gates, Lorraine.

American Civil Liberties Union NAACP History History of the NAACP General NAACP HistoryRice NAACP HistoryOverview of The Crisis Magazine General NAACP History The NAACP was formed in 1909 in New York City by a group of black and white citizens fighting for social justice. On February 12, 1909, a "Call" was issued by a collection of 60 signatures for a meeting on the concept of creating an organization that would be an aggressive watchdog of Negro liberties. Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Overview of The Crisis Magazine In 1910, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois founded THE CRISIS magazine as the premier crusading voice for civil rights. Published bi-monthly, THE CRISIS magazine is dedicated to being an open and honest forum for discussing critical issues confronting people of color, American society and the world in addition to highlighting the historical and cultural achievements of these diverse peoples. THE CRISIS is published by The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. — a for-profit enterprise that is legally separate from the NAACP.

Little Rock School Desegregation (1957) Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, nine African American students—Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls—attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were recruited by Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, Martin Luther King wrote President Dwight D. Eisenhower requesting a swift resolution allowing the students to attend school. On 4 September 1957, the first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. References

EEOC Home Page NAACP - Facts & Summary The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909-1910 in New York City by a group of white and black intellectuals. United in their opposition to the gradualism preached by Booker T. Washington, the NAACP leaders sought, first, to make whites aware of the need for racial equality. To do this, the organization launched a program of speechmaking, lobbying, and publicizing the issue. It also started a magazine, the Crisis, which was edited for years by the black leader W. In 1916, a new field secretary, James Weldon Johnson, began expanding the organization’s membership in the South. In 1950, the NAACP began its campaign against the legal doctrine–first established in Plessy v. Other civil rights groups attracted more members in the South during the 1960s, many using direct mass action instead of the legal strategies pioneered by the NAACP. The Reader’s Companion to American History.

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