The New Orleans Branch is the oldest continuously active branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People south of Washington...
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Independent Political League NAACP New Orleans Branch NAACP Theatre Award – President's Award Niagara Movement Racial integration NAACP is usually pronounced...
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(resigned to run) Danatus N. King Sr., attorney and President of the NAACP New Orleans Branch Mitch Landrieu, incumbent Mayor Manny "Chevrolet" Bruno, textbook...
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in New York City. LDF is wholly independent and separate from the NAACP. Although LDF can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP created...
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Rupert Richardson (category NAACP activists)
postandcouier.com. "NAACP New Orleans Branch 2011 National Convention". youtube.com. "About Us - NAACP: Austin". www.naacpaustin.com. "Dayton NAACP takes highest...
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Council of Federated Organizations (section NAACP)
addition to joining what Henry called the "homegrown" NAACP, Evers and Henry traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana for the organizational meeting of the Southern...
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Legislators overrode Governor John Bel Edwards' veto to enact the districts. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued the state on behalf of Black Louisianan...
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Volma Overton (category NAACP activists)
2005) was an African-American civil rights activist and president of NAACP's Austin, Texas chapter from 1962 to 1983. He is best known for his legal...
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McDonogh Day Boycott (category Education in New Orleans)
African Americans. In May 1954, Arthur Chapital, the director of the local NAACP branch in the 1950s, urged Ortique to make radio broadcasts calling for black...
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Ruby Bridges (category Activists from New Orleans)
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father...
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Leah Chase (category Businesspeople from New Orleans)
Lange; January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. An author and television personality, she was known as the...
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DeLesseps Story Morrison (category Mayors of New Orleans)
noted that New Orleans was at that time the least racially mixed of the large southern cities. He boasted that he had been sued by the NAACP over his segregationist...
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civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks became an NAACP activist in 1943, participating in several high-profile civil rights campaigns...
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the "strangest" years of his career. Following a January defeat to the New Orleans Pelicans, James publicly criticized Cleveland's front office for constructing...
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southbound City of New Orleans provides service from Jackson to New Orleans and some points between. The northbound City of New Orleans provides service...
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for the NAACP Brooklyn Branch. As a director, Maharaj has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at some of our nation's top regional theaters. New York City...
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Hattie V. Feger (category People from New Orleans)
of education at the West End Branch of the YWCA in Cincinnati in 1930. She was active in the Atlanta branch of the NAACP in the 1930s. From 1931, Feger...
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of the NAACP in 1957. While NAACP is a membership organization with chapters across the country, LDF is a law firm in New York City that focuses on civil...
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as St. Frances Academy in Baltimore (1828) and St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans (1867). The all-black African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) put a...
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Brown helped stimulate activism among New York City parents like Mae Mallory who, with the support of the NAACP, initiated a successful lawsuit against...
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enforce integration. October 31 – Officers of NAACP were arrested in Little Rock for failing to comply with a new financial disclosure ordinance. November...
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William Pickens (section NAACP)
joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was a member for over two decades. In 1923, he published a second edition...
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secretary by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1916. In 1919, he organized peaceful protests against the racial...
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praised the decision, as did The New York Times. The high-profile comments published in Northern newspapers and by the NAACP were of concern to the prosecuting...
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Carter G. Woodson (section NAACP)
United States . Woodson became affiliated with the Washington, D.C., branch of the NAACP and its chairman Archibald Grimké. On January 28, 1915, Woodson wrote...
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All-Star Weekend on February 16, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana at Champion Square. He also performed at New Orleans BUKU Music + Art Project festival on...
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Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (category NAACP)
resolution to accept ACT-SO as an officially sponsored NAACP youth achievement program. Local NAACP branches would be called upon to sponsor ACT-SO, conduct...
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Party, the Council of Federated Organizations and the Mississippi branch of the NAACP. Patterson graduated from the Mississippi State College School of...
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Small-Town Housing Showdown". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-29. Dreyfus, Hannah (15 January 2020). "NAACP Suit Says Rigged Voting System...
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1914. In 1916, he moved to the United States and established a UNIA branch in New York City's Harlem district. Emphasising unity between Africans and...
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