National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

1st Lady, Michelle Obama gave an eye- opening speech about her “Let’s Move!” campaign against childhood obesity. This took place at the NAACP national convention in Kansas City, Missouri in 2010. The NAACP, otherwise known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. There she spoke about how childhood obesity greatly targets African- American children and how this is now a big problem in…

The Declaration of Independence was a formal document that many of our founding fathers signed in order to break away from the oppression of Britain and King George III. The American colonists were taxed heavily by the british on everyday items such as coffee, paper, lead, sugar, and tea to pay for the damages of the French and Indian war. Due to the heavy taxation on daily products the colonies united to face a common enemy, Britain. Protests such as the Boston Tea Party lead by the Sons of…

At this yearly occasion King talked about the significance of Brown v. Leading body of Education. Dark colored v. Leading body of Education (1954) was a court case which included the mix of five school integration cases which included Briggs v. Elliott; Davis v. Area School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia; Bolling v. Sharpe; and Belton v. Gebhart.…

Department etc.) to address racial profiling and police brutality? (3) What are the organizational constraints?”(Glasper 2006). The main focus of the study is four groups. The Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Black Police Association, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, and Black Cops Against Police Brutality. Three methodologies are used in this study. The first being interviews of both current and…

main goal was to work on social improvement not just human insight. Du Bois was the first man to establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “He was – and continues to be an inspiration for many sociologists who believe that their findings should have real applications and be used to create a more humane social world” (qtd. In Ballentine 38). Groups of people tend to their own needs first before they plan to help anyone…

Luther King Jr.’s eloquent and iconic ‘ I Have a Dream’ speech is believed to have been largely improvised.” The writers of The History Channel Website, a commonly used website, state, “Even though King’s “I Have a Dream” speech has changed how most people feel, not everyone agrees with him. Some feel the speech was a great accomplishment of King, not all did. Even though we all have different feelings, we still have to live with how his speech impacted the general population. Martin Luther…

lived on their farm in Pine Level, Alabama.(5) Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber who was active in the civil rights movement in 1932. After her marriage, she became politically active as well and became a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.(6) Most of her life she was a seamstress and worked at a small workplace called the Montgomery Fair Department Store in the mid-1950’s, and also as a housekeeper for a white couple, Clifford, and Virginia Durr.(5)…

Addams heard that Wilson’s idea of entering the war to mold world peace by helping our allies. She attempted to push people to create an “international organization to prevent further wars”, but the feedback she got was hostile. Addams gave a speech at Evanston, Illinois Church where, “an old colleague from Addams’s progressive reform days, Illinois Supreme Court Chief…

the U.S. constitution. Police enforce the law to provide peace within the community. The citizens as well as the police has a right. America lives in a democratic form government which the power comes from the people. Our forefathers made sure that there are no tyrannical rule of the people between the government. The powers of the government are divided into three branches: the legislative, executive, and the judicial branch. The police are part of the judicial branch. The police serve the…

in 1965. (pg. 153). The dual education system ended, all blacks and whites now go the same schools, and the blacks had achieved what they had dreamt of. The book ends with “Martin Luther King, and the people he led, fulfilled this hope,” (pg.163). He had a become a leader of the blacks, as his people liked his theory of non -violence. "My Mind Set on Freedom" is an amazing brief summary of such an important subject in the history of the United States. Salmond has organized the chapters very…