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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"NAACP"”.
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C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him
… the McComb Pike County chapter president of the NAACP from 1954 to 1984. During the summer of 1964, McComb was known as the bombing capital of the world. Throughout the nineteen fifties Bryant worked with national and local NAACP leadership to grow the McComb branch. Throughout the nineteen …
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The effect of selected special interest groups on public school curriculum
… six selected special interest groups were the NAACP, ACLU, MM, PP, LWV, and NOW.FindingsThe NAACP, ACLU, PP, LWV, and NOW reported similar attitudes regarding several topics, such as the inclusion of sex education in public school curricula, the exclusion of both scientific creationism and the …
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Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
… This dissertation focuses on the career of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers and connects the growth and development of his approach to fighting white supremacy in Mississippi to his interpretation of the Mau Mau movement in British colonial Kenya. While Mississippi may have felt as though …
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Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior: a case study in leadership for educational opportunity and equality in Pulaski, Virginia
… School in 1938. With the assistance of the NAACP and the Virginia State Teachers Association, Harmon led one of the earliest campaigns for equalization of teacher salaries and facilities during the 1938-39 school term. In March of 1939, the Pulaski County School Board decided to send its …
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist Buford Posey, and William Carey president Ralph Noonkester. While their contributions between 1950-1971 differed, being white and active in the Deep South connects all three lives. A closer examination of what spurred their …
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We don't want them in our schools: Black School Equality, Desegregation, and Massive Resistance in Southwest Virginia, 1920s-1960s
… the 1930s and 1940s, with it finally leading NAACP attorneys Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson collaborating with Pulaski citizens in 1948 to file a discrimination lawsuit in the case Corbin v. School Board of Pulaski County. The activism did not end here as once the Supreme Court ruled in …
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Into "the Dead Zone" : racial violence and white supremacist genocide in Jim Crow Virginia, 1902-1951
… citizenship. Using the archival papers of the NAACP and newspaper coverage, this thesis illustrates this maintenance of racial terror through state executions and impunity for individual perpetrators through a series of case studies. Examining these case studies using models from the field of …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… such as SCLC, SNCC, CORE, COFO, and the NAACP, work closely with local black people in the South who struggled with their underprivileged circumstances. This project investigates the key role of the grassroots leadership of Christian women leaders, which led civil rights leaders to learn …
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From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement
… for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), respectively. Mainstream and “underground” (gay and African American) media outlets also helped mobilize grassroots activism and increased outside pressure for hate crime legislation through sympathetic coverage of the hate crime “epidemic” …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the American Communist Party (CPUSA), and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) took advantage of jazz’s rapidly exploding commercial appeal during the early 1920s and staged lucrative benefit concerts featuring jazz music as a way …
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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement
… for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization at the forefront of the civil rights movement. This piece will attempt to make the claim that black-owned private businesses should become included alongside community and civil rights organizations to expand our …
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An Historical Analysis of the Development of Charter School Legislation in Virginia
… for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA), and the Virginia Education Association (VEA). Equally important, partisan politics and the opposition of the Black Caucus in the General Assembly were the two strongest internal factors in …
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School Desegregation in Roanoke, Virginia: The Black Student Perspective
The purpose of this study was to explore and document the perspectives of the Black students who were the first to desegregate Roanoke, Virginia, schools during the 1960-1961 school year. In September of 1960, nine Black students were chosen to desegregate formerly all-White schools in Roanoke. The …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
<p>The United States has a longstanding practice of ascribing the language and imagery of martyrdom to political and cultural figures, resulting in a variegated canon of American martyrs outside the strict bounds of religious tradition. As a contribution to religious studies, American studies and …
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A Historical Narrative on the Role of Mrs. Esther Brown in the Development of Desegregation Policy in Public Education
Mrs. Esther Brown, a White Jewish woman, made a significant contribution to the desegregation of public education in the 1940s. This research study establishes her role in the development of desegregation policy in public education in the contemporary public narrative on desegregation policy in the …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
Scholarship on African American community building and Black freedom struggles has demonstrated the centrality of the Black working class to social, political, and economic transformations in the twentieth-century rural South. Yet, our understanding of how African Americans actively engaged in …