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Há 5 dias · Roy Wilkins Park, Queens Merrick Boulevard and Baisley Boulevard. Saturday, August 13; Sunday, August 14 . St. Nicholas Park, Manhattan 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Saturday, August 20; Sunday, August 21 . Midland Beach Parking Lot 8, Staten Island Father Capodanno Boulevard and Hunter Avenue. Thursday, September 1 . Orchard Beach, Bronx
Há 5 dias · Roy Wilkins announced that sociologist and activist W. E. B. Du Bois had died in Ghana the previous night, where he had been living in exile; the crowd observed a moment of silence in his memory. Wilkins had initially refused to announce the news because he despised Du Bois for becoming a Communist—but insisted on making the announcement when he realized that Randolph would make it if he ...
Há 4 dias · Roy Wilkins retired as executive director in 1977, and Benjamin Hooks, a lawyer and clergyman, was elected his successor. The 1990s. In the 1990s, the NAACP ran into debt. The dismissal of two leading officials further added to the picture of an organization in deep crisis. After such, Rupert Richardson began her term as president of the NAACP ...
Há 5 dias · Humanities TexasSeptember 2011. In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white writer, dyed his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the segregated South. For thirty-seven days, Griffin traveled through the Deep South living as an African American laborer. The memoir he published in 1961 about his experiences, Black Like Me, sold over ten ...
Há 5 dias · U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, NAACP National Director Roy Wilkins, Oklahoma Gov. David Hall and Mayor Robert LaFortune were among more than 1,500 who crowded into the First Baptist ...
Há 4 dias · Scientific American first published– 1845. Sen. Strom Thurmond S.C. starts a filibuster speaking against the Civil Rights Bill. He spoke continuously for 24 hours and 18 minutes.– 1957. The New York Times broke the TV quiz-show scandal story– 1958. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech– 1963.
