Some of the Significant Members of NAACP in 20th Century
Today, NAACP's headquarters are in Baltimore, Maryland with 64-member board of directors!
Significant leaders of the NAACP, that helped to take NAACP's organization to a new level in the fight for Civil Rights, BELOW!
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois is African American born in Massachusetts and spent his life working towards Gaining the civil rights for all African Americas. Therefore he gained a doctorate in history from Harvard with a dissertation on "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America; which was published as No. 1 in Harvard's Historical Series. For NAACP he led as the director of publicity and research from 1910-1934, was a part of the board of directors and also wa a the founder and editor of NAACP'official magazine, the Crisis. Furthermore, he was the leading figure of NAACP's protests during WWI for anti-lynching legislation. He also played a grand role in making United Nations aware of the grievances of African Americans through NAACP. Aside from founding NAACP, he was also the founder of the Nicaragua movement of 1904; which was a civil r rights organization that worked to combat segregation and limits put on suffrage for African-Americans. W. E. B. Du Bois was a grand figure in the fight for racial equality.
W. E. B. Du Bois is African American born in Massachusetts and spent his life working towards Gaining the civil rights for all African Americas. Therefore he gained a doctorate in history from Harvard with a dissertation on "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America; which was published as No. 1 in Harvard's Historical Series. For NAACP he led as the director of publicity and research from 1910-1934, was a part of the board of directors and also wa a the founder and editor of NAACP'official magazine, the Crisis. Furthermore, he was the leading figure of NAACP's protests during WWI for anti-lynching legislation. He also played a grand role in making United Nations aware of the grievances of African Americans through NAACP. Aside from founding NAACP, he was also the founder of the Nicaragua movement of 1904; which was a civil r rights organization that worked to combat segregation and limits put on suffrage for African-Americans. W. E. B. Du Bois was a grand figure in the fight for racial equality.
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was the first African American to be appointed executive secretary of the NAACP And he took this position from 1920-1930 expanding membership in the south-NAACP grew to 90,000 which half came from south-and opening new branches. In Georgia he took a job as an educator of former slaves and this changed his life and thus he joined NAACP. In NAACP, he also organized protests during the race riots of 1919 and coined it the "Red Summer". Furthermore also lead the Harlem Renaissance and became one of its great minds. He also emphasizes something W. E. B. Du Bois nor Booker T Washington (civil rights leader) did not, setting importance on African Americans producing literature and art; in doing so, he believed it will show off their intellectual equality. Aside from leading NAACP, Johnson was a well known novelist as well as a poet, songwriter and lawyer.
James Weldon Johnson was the first African American to be appointed executive secretary of the NAACP And he took this position from 1920-1930 expanding membership in the south-NAACP grew to 90,000 which half came from south-and opening new branches. In Georgia he took a job as an educator of former slaves and this changed his life and thus he joined NAACP. In NAACP, he also organized protests during the race riots of 1919 and coined it the "Red Summer". Furthermore also lead the Harlem Renaissance and became one of its great minds. He also emphasizes something W. E. B. Du Bois nor Booker T Washington (civil rights leader) did not, setting importance on African Americans producing literature and art; in doing so, he believed it will show off their intellectual equality. Aside from leading NAACP, Johnson was a well known novelist as well as a poet, songwriter and lawyer.
"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."
Walter White
NAACP reached its nationwide fame with the help of Walter White, who was their executive secretary from 1931-1955. Walter White was of African-American heritage, but with blue eyes and blonde hair he easily passed for being white, thus it made it easier for him to get interviews with suspected lynchers and officers as well as investigate about 40 lynchings and 8 race riots; which then he could broadcast or write about.
Therefore, rather than claiming he was white and flee like others around him in Atlanta, Georgia, he embraced his heritage and became a NAACP member. He helped by steering NAACP towards more "legal channels to fight segregation, poll taxes and other discrimination measures"("Walter White") which led to the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education for school desegregation. White also pushed President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue an executive order of Fair Employment Practices (1941) that barred racial discrimination of hiring in the defense industry.
NAACP reached its nationwide fame with the help of Walter White, who was their executive secretary from 1931-1955. Walter White was of African-American heritage, but with blue eyes and blonde hair he easily passed for being white, thus it made it easier for him to get interviews with suspected lynchers and officers as well as investigate about 40 lynchings and 8 race riots; which then he could broadcast or write about.
Therefore, rather than claiming he was white and flee like others around him in Atlanta, Georgia, he embraced his heritage and became a NAACP member. He helped by steering NAACP towards more "legal channels to fight segregation, poll taxes and other discrimination measures"("Walter White") which led to the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education for school desegregation. White also pushed President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue an executive order of Fair Employment Practices (1941) that barred racial discrimination of hiring in the defense industry.
"I am not white. There is nothing within my mind or heart which tempts me to think I am"