• The National Negro Committee (formed: New York City, May 31 and June 1, 1909 – ceased: New York City, May 12, 1910) was created in response to the Springfield...
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    The National Negro Committee held its first meeting in New York on May 31 and June 1, 1909. By May 1910, the National Negro Committee and attendants...
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  • independent play by a variety of teams, the first Negro National League was formed in 1920. Ultimately, seven Negro major leagues existed at various times over...
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  • helped plan the NAACP and had served as acting chairman of the National Negro Committee (1909), a forerunner to the NAACP. On May 30, 1909, the Niagara...
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  • The Negro Labor Committee (NLC) was an organization founded by Frank Crosswaith and others in 1935 to advance African American interests within the American...
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    The Veterans Committee is the popular name of various committees of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum that elect participants other than recently...
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  • The Magical Negro is a trope in American cinema, television, and literature. In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock...
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  • Culture National Museum of African American Music National Negro Business League National Negro Committee National Negro Congress National Negro Labor Council...
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    instrumental in seeing that "a training camp for Negro officers at Des Moines was established and about 1,000 Negro officers commissioned." Spingarn also served...
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    The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality...
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    some wealth to them. White and his family identified as Negro and lived among Atlanta's Negro community (despite White and his siblings inheriting a bit...
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    The National Negro Business League (NNBL) was an American organization founded in Boston in 1900 by Booker T. Washington to promote the interests of African-American...
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  • The National Negro Congress (NNC) (1936–ca. 1946) was an American organization formed in 1936 at Howard University as a broadly based organization with...
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    committees: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee on National Security Committee...
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    birthday. This song became widely popular and has become known as the "Negro National Anthem", a title that the NAACP adopted and promoted. The song included...
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    children as those attended by other children, and we want Negro teachers and we want Negro supervisors, and we want all the opportunity, but the only...
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    NAACP-Inc. Fund Alliance: Its Strategy, Power, and Destruction," Journal of Negro Education 1994 63(3): 323–335. in JSTOR Watkins, Steve. The Black O: Racism...
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    The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus...
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  • Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding...
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  • The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for an outstanding achievement by an African...
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  • The National Negro Committee chooses "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" as its organization name. September 29 – Committee on...
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    Doctor. At the NAACP, Johnson works closely with the national staff, including Wisdom Cole, the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division for...
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    Julian Bond (category Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
    Kathryn, eds. (2000). Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem; 100 Years, 100 Voices. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0679463153...
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    Oswald Garrison Villard (category America First Committee members)
    and his fellow staff members were ... radical on peace and war and on the Negro question; radical in our insistence that the United States stay at home...
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    Morris, and Charles P. Howard, Sr.) — the National Negro Bar Association, in 1925, which became the National Bar Association (NBA), of which he also served...
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    Moorfield Storey (category National Democratic Party (United States) politicians)
    Anti-Imperialist League. In addition, he wrote a book brief for the Lodge Committee summarizing the war crimes of the Philippine–American War. From 1905 until...
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    and associate of Dr. T.R.M. Howard, the head of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), a leading civil rights organization in Mississippi. Hooks...
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  • on their wedding day instead kills 24 1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
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    The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded...
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    Medgar and Myrlie Evers House was named as a National Historic Landmark, and in 2019 became a National Monument. After leaving her post as chairwoman...
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