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1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1981 Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80 1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks 1976 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP 1974 Stephen Gill Spottswood, U.S. bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77 1971 Arthur B Springarn, U.S. NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93 1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies 1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City 1963 Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37 1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters 1951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb 1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination 1950 Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54 1948 Kweisi Mfume, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1987 - 1996, CEO NAACP 1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN 1939 NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund 1938 James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 1936 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers 1934 W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP 1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination 1931 Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as Assistant Secretary 1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP 1924 Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP 1914 Daisy Bates, publisher/head, Arkansas NAACP 1913 Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, U.S. head, NAACP 1911 NAACP incorporates in New York 1910 2nd NAACP conference (New York City) 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) 1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms 1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1810 Walter White, secretary, NAACP |
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