A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1977 to 1992, and throughout his career was a vocal campaigner for civil rights in the United States. Bill Cosby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ...
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But the most important thing is that cousins are family. We are Cousins / Somos primos celebrates the joy of this special family bond. The children explain that they are cousins because their mothers are sisters, and from the moment they get together, the fun begins. They march in a ...
She delivered her baked goods first to just 14 miles away, and then to protestors and volunteers at the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP. The following weekend, she took dozens more to a temporary food distribution center in St. Paul where many grocery stores had been destroyed. Sadly, McGee...
Thanks to their impact, the duo was honored among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 and, in March, won the NAACP Image Award for outstanding variety series or special. Verzuz has continued to attract millions of virtual viewers and added a number of live shows across the ...
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Du Bois, at first supported the Atlanta Compromise but after 1909 they set up the NAACP and tried with little success to challenge Washington's political machine for leadership in the black community. Decades after Washington's death in 1915, the Civil Rights movement generally moved away from ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has a long history of litigating civil rights cases, and was founded by none other than Thurgood Marshall, the first black member of the US Supreme Court. The ACLU has also long defended the rights of protestors. Support organizations that fight police brutality ...
He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of very high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talent...
From 1919 to 1926, Fauset's position as literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era. Through her work as a literary editor and reviewer, she discouraged black ...