National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Is a banana and an apple the same? No but they both are good for your health. Just like W.E.B Du Bios and Booker T. Washington are different but they have some similarities. Both of them fought for civil rights and never gave up. Even though they were both African American they had some differences. For example, Booker T. Washington was willing to wait for civil rights. W.E.B Du Bios didn’t like waiting and he demanded civil rights now. Both of them had different opinions and actions.…

and the people who've paved the way for equal key rights amongst all citizens regardless of race, religion, or gender. This world wouldn’t have gotten as far as it has without all the different organizations, movements, court cases, and laws that fought for justice and didn’t throw in the towel when situations and circumstances got rough. There are several organizations that have stood up and stood out for what they wanted. For example, the NAACP. The NAACP stands for (National…

in my opinion, opened the doors to end segregation from people with different skin tones. She was brave and calm even in the midst of everything that was happening; she never showed anger or hatred in the bus or the police car ride. Rosa Parks not only represented African-Americans, she also represented women. Rosa Parks first realized it was a segregated world when all the white children would board the bus to their new school; the colored children would have to walk to their one room…

Engebretson expresses Stone Mountain has become part of a heated debate, nationally; including the Confederate monument itself and Confederate flags. Engebretson goes into the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina and why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) wants the monument removed, completely. The NAACP says the image is a glorification of white supremacy. It is very clear to what the Confederacy stands for. As the president of the NAACP stated in his…

continuous barriers that separated the black and white communities, DuBois was a huge advocate for the education of black people. Demonstrating persistence, DuBois continuously wrote his ideas in The Crisis and he also was a founder of the National Association Advancement of Colored People where he spoke against the political norms and questioned the intentions of white people. As a child, Du Bois was presented with harsh struggles such as poverty and having a single parent…

I chose the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP as my nonprofit organization to analyze revenue sources. According to their website the NAACP’s mission is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race. The NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the world. The NAACP has a couple of revenue sources 1. Contributions, Gift & Grants 2. Federated Campaigns 3. Federal Grants The first type of…

Throughout history, there have been many prominent people worth mentioning. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who is a civil rights and woman’s activist and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated, empowered not only the past but today’s society. She stands as one of our nation’s most unbending and strong leaders and who is a devoted defender of democracy. (Baker 1996) Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862, and was the oldest daughter of slaves, James and Lizzie Wells. Eventually, during…

On May 21, 2012, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), named same-sex marriage as "one of the key civil rights struggles of our time.” Gay marriage has been proven to be a civil right. It’s been a struggle for those that support it and those who are against it but, there is a solution to this situation and that solution is allowing same sex couples to get married. People of the same sex should be able to get married all around the U.S. because it is a civil…

Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her parents were slaves, but they became free six months after Wells birth. Wells married Ferdinand Barnett and had four children with him. Ida Wells played a big role in journalism as a whole, but also African American journalism. She was very passionate about equal rights and African American rights. Wells became very vocal about these rights in May of 1884 after asked to move to the car for African Americans even though she…

reality of all races of this country. One of the races that many people are trying exclude is the colored race, African American people. For many years they suffered the power of the wealthy people “whites”. Between the time was passing many names have been appearing, names like Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Dubois and many other people that where figthed for the rights of the colored people. Thanks to them African-American people are considered part of the society nowadays. If I have…