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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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