NAACP

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/2022
  

  The Unique Local and National Role of Washington's NAACP Chapter

  Derek Gray examined the growth of the capital city's NAACP chapter, the first in the nation to have Black leadership, and one with the unique responsibility to monitor legislation in Congress affecting civil rights and racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/21/2021
  

  Black Women's Roles in the Civil Rights Movement have been Understated -- But that's Changing

  Beverly Guy-Sheftall of Spelman College discusses the public minimization of women as leaders in the 1950s and 1960s Black Freedom movements. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/27/2020
  

  'I Don't Know if This Democracy Will Be Recognizable.' NAACP's President Says This Election is the Most Important in a Century

  "The real opportunity in today’s moment is to see the peaceful protesters in the streets across the country that look like America: young, old, Black, white, male, female. That is something that that did not happen during the 1960s Civil Rights movement."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/2020
  

  Talks Underway to Move Ashes of writer Dorothy Parker out of Baltimore

  What would the oft-quoted Parker say about yet another resting place? One can almost hear her. What fresh hell is this?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/19
  

  NAACP challenges legality of Confederate names on Virginia schools

  The NAACP is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to “eradicate the vestiges of a shameful, racist educational system in Hanover County” by ordering the schools to be renamed.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/14/19
  

  NAACP’s first meeting was held in Canada but there were no Canadians there

  by Warren Clarke and Nadine Powell

  Given the strong geographical connection between Canada and the U.S., it is reasonable to question why Black Canadians are missing from the Niagara Movement’s historical narrative.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Times
  11-9-17
  

  California NAACP seeks to abolish ‘Star-Spangled Banner,’ calling it ‘racist’

  Those who argue the song is racist point to a rarely sung and little-known line in the third verse that says, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  7-28-17
  

  Here’s Why You Need To Know About The 1917 Silent Parade

  The anti-lynching protest became known as the first mass demonstration by African Americans.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  6-13-15
  

  Rachel Dolezal a lesson in how racism works

  by Michael P. Jeffries

  Her failed reinvention is a lesson about racism, privilege, and identity as choice.

• SOURCE: AP
  8-7-13
  

  Va. NAACP head criticizes group’s plan to fly Confederate flag along I-95 outside Richmond

  RICHMOND, Va. — A heritage group’s plan to fly a large Confederate flag along Interstate 95 outside Richmond is drawing criticism from the head of the NAACP’s Virginia chapter.The Virginia Flaggers plans to fly the 10-by-15-foot flag on a 50-foot pole just south of Richmond. It’s tentatively scheduled to go up Sept. 28 and will be visible from the northbound lanes of the interstate, although organizers haven’t said exactly where it will be located.Virginia NAACP Executive Director King Salim Khalfani told the Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/14iwLLJ ) that the flag would make Richmond look like a “backwater, trailer park, hick town.”...

• SOURCE: EdWeek
  03-28-13
  

  Civil Rights Groups: School Safety Not Dependent on Guns

  In a pre-emptive move against a school safety proposal from the National Rifle Association that is expected to include a call for more people trained and approved to carry guns at schools, a coalition of civil rights groups unveiled its own safety plan Thursday. It seeks the creation of positive school climates, thoughtful and comprehensive crisis plans, and improved safety features that don’t turn schools into fortresses....