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1 day ago · The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) [a] is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
- W.E.B. Du Bois
It was the first African-American illustrated weekly, and Du...
- Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer and humanitarian. He...
- Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an...
- W.E.B. Du Bois
1 day ago · e. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for ...
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Clarence Thomas
May 15, 2024 · Thurgood Marshall (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died January 24, 1993, Bethesda) was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91), the Court’s first African American member. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Court the case of Brown v.
4 days ago · Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08). He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end of ...
19 hours ago · The first African-American President of the United States, Barack Obama Politically and economically, Black people have made substantial strides in the post-civil rights era. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson , who ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, brought unprecedented support and leverage to Black people ...
Apr 26, 2024 · SUMMARY. John Mercer Langston served as Virginia’s first African American member of Congress (1890–1891) and as the first president of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (later Virginia State University). The son of a white Louisa County planter and the woman he freed, Langston grew up in Ohio, where, as an attorney and local office ...
May 6, 2024 · Fred Luter, Jr. (born November 11, 1956, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.) is an American Protestant religious leader and was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention (2012–14), the first African American to hold the position. Luter was born in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He narrowly survived a motorcycle accident when he was 21 years ...
