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    one of the organizers of NAACP, the primary A.A to get a doctoral degree from Harvard, and he is likewise an A.A writer, teacher, and social liberties extremist. In the beginning, W.E.B. Du Bois was an undergrad he watched bigotry and it made him need to make a move. On the 100th commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12, 1909, 60 high contrast

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    Juanita Craft Juanita Craft was born in Round Rock, Texas. She was an activist and politician. Craft received many awards through her years of hard work. Born in 1902, Craft went through the struggles of segregation and racial discrimination. Craft was the only child of educators David Sylvestus and Eliza Balfour Shanks, she was born on February 9, 1902, in Round Rock, Texas. Both of her parents taught at school. David, her father, would later become a principal. When Craft was young, she went

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    Demographic Resource List Sashe’ Jackson University of Northwestern St. Paul April 3, 2016 Multicultural/Diversity Issues in Human Services Between 1500 and the 1860’s at least 12 million Africans were taken to America. The largest migration known in American history relocated 50 ethnic and linguistic groups. Less than half million were sent to North America and the majority were sent to South America and the Caribbean. European goods were taken to Africa to exchange for slaves. The slaves

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    her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus . Claudette was only fifteen years old at the time of the arrest. She was also a member of the NAACP Youth Council. The NAACP wanted to test the Montgomery Bus System by assigning black women to challenging the Jim Crow law on buses in Montgomery, AL. After her arrest, even though she was a youth, the NAACP thought Colvin would be their key to their rebellion, but could not happen because she later became pregnant. During her pregnancy, Colvin testified

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    joined the NAACP goals were similar to SNCC but they chose a different strategy. Both Evers and Lewis chose to fight peacefully and while Lewis fought for the natural rights of blacks Evers fought for their legal rights. John Lewis and Douglass Evers both fought for the advancement of their people. John Lewis chose to go about it by doing sit-ins while Evers sought to do it through the courts. Evers felt as if doing things the way that the SNCC did stirred up animosity. He and the NAACP felt as if

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    finally going to pass through congress. “How did we manage to do that?” you ask, confused. “W.E.B. DuBois,” he says. W.E.B. DuBois worked his entire life to fight the injustices that occupied blacks’ lives daily. W.E.B DuBois worked alongside the NAACP in hopes of ending racial discrimination, and his worked proved to be crucial to advocating civil justice. Growing up, W.E.B. DuBois achieved many impressive things as a writer and an activist. He was born in 1868 in Great

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    DuBois was not subtle to one job or career choice. As a civil rights activist, educator, sociologist, historian, writer, editor, scholar, and poet, DuBois contributed to changing American society today. DuBois is mostly remember for his work with the NAACP and his notorious feud with civil rights activist Booker T. Washington. Having a strong stand in what he believed in, his main goal was to improve the lives of African Americans. On February 23, 1868, William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born to Alfred

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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) The mission of the NAACP is to protect and provide the political, educational, social, and economic equality rights of minority groups and citizens; attain equal opportunity of rights and excludes race discrimination between the citizens of the United States. The objectives of this mission are to inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination, to seek enactment and enforcement of federal

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    In an unprecedented move, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP) in Missouri issued a travel advisory for people of color. The oldest civil rights group in the United States announced the warning after state legislators passed a law that the group deems "legal discrimination." The NAACP circulated messages using various mediums that advised people of color -- namely, African Americans -- to travel throughout the state of Missouri at their "own risk" due to an

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    Criticisms of the Black Power Movement The Black Power movement received criticism from the media and civil rights activists and organizations, such as the New York Times, Bayard Rustin and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Bayard Rustin, an African American activist for nonviolence and civil rights activist, condemned the Black Power Movement. While he understood the purpose and motivations of the movement he criticized the movement for dividing the American people

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