NAACP
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But Billie Green, president of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch of the NAACP, said Jackson’s campaign would have been more effective if it had joined forces with other organizations that had members within the television industry.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
Working with the NAACP, it contributed to a series of lawsuits that would ultimately help overturn the Plessy v.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
His nomination as director was denounced by the ACLU, the NAACP, the National Organization for Women, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and many other civil rights and civil liberties organizations.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025
On Tuesday, I watched him energise a packed convention hall with a speech to the African-American civil rights group the NAACP.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
Many of these artists had been encouraged to leave the South by pioneer civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who was also the editor of The Crisis magazine, the journal of the NAACP.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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