National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

"W. E. B." Du Bois was born in February 1868 and died in 1963, he was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Du Bois earned his Ph.D. in History and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. In 1915 Du Bois wrote The Negro, which is a small book about the impact of slavery and black history in the Caribbean and United States. In the eleventh chapter of the book Du Bois speaks about “Negro…

Interest groups are in charge of sending some people to represent the special interest at the governmental level. Some times the government represent the interest groups more than the people of the United States. Alice Rivlin, economist and former U.S. Federal Reserve and budget official, states “politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest (Rivlin). Interest groups take part in influencing policy this act is called lobbying. There are many different kind of…

organization that I really like was the NAACP. The purpose of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure equal rights and to spread equality and to spread positivity throughout the campus by doing community service, fundraising, political actions, and hosting educational events. I love doing community service projects, fundraising, and having equal rights, which leads to my interests which is helping people out and making sure they get the same rights as…

Medgar Evers was a Civil rights activist. He was born on July 2nd, 1925, in Decatur Mississippi. In 1954 he Became the first state field secretary of NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.) He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. Which where he said he did not have to worry about racism until he got honorably discharged in 1946 and returned to Mississippi. His senior year Medgar Evers had gotten married to Myrlie Beasley. Later they had three children Darrell…

African Americans and Caucasians should attend separate schools. In response to this, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted a plan for the integration of schools. The first schools to integrate would be high schools. Despite this opposition, nine African American students registered to enroll in Little Rock Central High School. On the morning of September 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guard blocked nine African American students from entering Little Rock…

Mary Dudziak, author of the book Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, explores impacts of Cold War foreign affairs on American civil rights reform during a period when international eyes focused on the United States as leader of the free world. A leading United States legal historian, Dudziak has written several books on the crossing of domestic law and international affairs. Professor of law at Emory University Dudziak has clerked with the 4th US District Court of…

Not long after the passing of Emmet Till couple of months after the fact, the 43 years of age common right extremist Rosa Parks who filled in as a secretary for the neighborhood office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got captured for declining to surrender her seat on the isolated city transport to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This drove the isolation of open transportation to go under assault. The law required that when…

"Walter's Thing: The NAACP's Hollywood Bureau of 1946--A Cautionary Tale" The author’s main argument in this article is that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a better agency than the previous Hollywood agency whereas every institutional foundation made attempts to deny African American life and culture when on the scenes. The new agency made it fair in that the African American’s are not denied the opportunity of playing their roles in movie making. The…

Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She lived with family but after her parents had separated her mother moved the family go to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her grandmother. Here, she experienced racial equality during her childhood. She had to learn a separate classroom reserved for blacks; school supplies are not adequate for the white students. While white students are taking the bus to school, the blacks students including Rose Park had to walk to school. In…

Now, I often have an African American student ask me in Spanish class why Spanish uses the word “negro” for black. The first time this happened I remember the student insisting that “negro” was an English word and was used to identify her and her people, a.k.a African Americans. This was a teachable moment where I explained that during slavery, slave owners chose to identify slaves as separate beings from themselves so they were named "negros” or “darkies”, to identify them as somehow different…