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Starting on December 5, 1955, NAACP activists, including Edgar Nixon, its local president, and Rosa Parks, who had served as the chapter's Secretary, helped organize a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This was designed to protest segregation on the city's buses, two-thirds of whose riders were black.
- February 12, 1909; 114 years ago
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- The Niagara Movement Played A Pivotal Role in Early Race-Based Discussions
- Du Bois Led The NAACP’s Initial Efforts
- In Its Early Days, The NAACP Strongly Influenced The Supreme Court
By 1905, with the legal implementation of Black disenfranchisement in the South, as well as Jim Crow laws and segregation, 32 African American activists, led by Du Bois, met on the Canadian side of Niagara, Ontario—a place where segregation was not an issue—and thus, formed what became known as the Niagara Movement. A year later, three white activi...
Knowing Du Bois would be a pivotal figure in their cause, Ovington recruited him as well as other intellectual reformers to create what was initially called the National Negro Committee and what would later become the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1909 Du Bois led organization efforts for the committee's fir...
Among its early achievements, the NAACP helped open the door for African Americans to serve in World War I. In 1915 it also organized national marches to protest director D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, which romanticized the Ku Klux Klan, and resulted in many cities boycotting the film. But what the NAACP was most known for in its early day...
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NAACP membership grew rapidly, from around 9,000 in 1917 to around 90,000 in 1919, with more than 300 local branches. Joel Spingarn, a professor of literature and one of the NAACP founders formulated much of the strategy that fostered the organization's growth. He was elected board chairman of the NAACP in 1915 and served as president from 1929 ...
Jul 22, 2020 · In 1896, she helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), coining the organization’s motto, “Lifting As We Climb,” and served as its president from 1896 to 1901.
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Kelley fought for the rights of working women and children. She campaigned for an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, and federal aid for mothers and infants. With Lillian Wald, she helped create the U.S. Children’s Bureau (1912). Walling enlisted her help to create the NAACP. She served as a longtime member of the board and Legal Committee.
Oct 27, 2009 · W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a civil rights activist who led the Niagara Movement and later helped form the NAACP.
Oct 29, 2009 · The NAACP also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, one of the biggest civil rights rallies in U.S. history, ... In 2009, the year he became America’s first Black president, ...
