1981 Death Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80 1978 Birthday Tia Mowry, born in Gelhausen, West Germany, also known as Tia Mowry Hardrict, actress, winner of NAACP Image Award, breakout role in sitcom, Sister, Sister 1977 Event Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks 1976 Event Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP 1974 Death Stephen Gill Spottswood, U.S. bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77 1971 Death Arthur B Springarn, U.S. NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93 1968 Death William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies 1963 Death W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1963 Event NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City 1963 Death Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37 1958 Event NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters 1951 Death Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb 1951 Event NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination 1950 Death Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54 1948 Birthday Kweisi Mfume, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1987 - 1996, CEO NAACP 1947 Event NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN 1939 Event NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund 1938 Death James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 1936 Event NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers 1934 Event W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP 1933 Event NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination 1931 Event Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as Assistant Secretary 1930 Event James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP 1924 Birthday Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP 1914 Birthday Daisy Bates, publisher/head, Arkansas NAACP 1913 Birthday Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, U.S. head, NAACP 1911 Event NAACP incorporates in New York 1910 Event 2nd NAACP conference (New York City) 1909 Event 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) 1909 Event National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms 1901 Birthday Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1810 Birthday Walter White, secretary, NAACP
