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- The NAACP
- From The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois
(New York: International Publishers, Inc. 1968),
pp. 254–276. Interesting account of the NAACP from its
origins in 1919 up through the 1920s, by one of its
principal founders (54 kb).
- NAACP, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People: An interracial membership
organization, founded in 1909, that is devoted to civil rights
and racial justice
- By Kate Tuttle. An article of 16 January 2000 located at
Africana.com. It is a useful overview of the history of
the NAACP that hints at the organization's inner
contradictions.
- NAACP tries to revive once-weighty
magazine
- By Larry Bivins, Detroit News Washington Bureau, 13
April 1997. The Crisis magazine played a
central roll in the development of the NAACP, and was once
both intellectually exciting and politically bold. It has
reflected the character of the NAACP itself.
- Guide Introduction: Papers of the
NAACPPart 17: National Staff Files, 1940–1955
- Lexis-Nexis African American Studies, December
1995. Access to source files needed for research in the
NAACP's history. The period covered by this example
was critical for quantitative institutional growth
accompanied by the seeds of its eventual decline.
- Changing of the Guard: Resounding Speech by
the Rev. Jamal Bryant
- By Jeffrey Ball, Knight-Ridder, 10 July 1996. The
NAACP's new youth coordinator indicts the
organization's graying leadership for having grown
complacent by largely ignoring troubled young people who
most need its help.
- CPUSA replies to slander in NY
Times
- By Gus Hall & Jarvis Tyner, People's
Weekly World, 21 December 1996. Response to
New York Times' McCarthyite attack on
the role of progressives in the NAACP.
- NAACP Reaffirms Policy On
Desegregation
- By Maurice Williams, The Militant, 11
August 1997. Divisive issues at the 88th annual NAACP
convention in Pittsburgh. Pro-business President Kweisi
Mfume's and NAACP national board chairperson Myrlie
Evers-Williams' policies.
- NAACP chair will broaden message
- By Frank Chapman, Weekly World, 28 February
1998. Julian Bond is elected national chair of the
NAACP. He wants the NAACP to reach out to emerging
Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians
and white Americans.
- NAACP criticizes Mumia teach-in. School
officials hope to limit controversy
- By Jonathan Schorr, Oakland Tribune, 8
January 1999. Oakland NAACP blasts planned teach-in
concerning Mumia Abu-Jamal.
- NAACP Convention: Beware of Anti-Racists
Funded by the Rulers
- From Challenge, 4 August 1999. The
Progressive Labor Party assessement of the 90th convention
of the NAACP (New York, 15 July 1999). Accuses the
leadership of selling out. Appended is an extract from
W.E.B.Dubois' Autobiography saying why
he believed in communism.
- About the NAACP
- From the NAACP web page (1999). The current
NAACP's self-assessment. Access to the NAACP
website.
- National NAACP; Is there a plan?
- A dialog on the BRC-ALL list, December 1999. Discussion
of whether the NAACP, the only nationally recognized large
viable organization, is totally lame.
- Quote of the day
- By Adam Fairclough, June 2000. The NAACP's
decision to abandon equalization for integration involved
a strategic decision to attack Jim Crow at what appeared
to be its most vulnerable point. Given its (virtually)
consistent opposition to legally imposed segregation, the
decision was entirely consonant with the
organization's basic philosophy. But this produced
profound misgivings among black educators such as Du
Bois.
- Battle Brewing in Philadelphia
NAACP
- By Linn Washington Jr., The Black World
Today, 16 November 2000. The caustic campaign by
Mayor Street to oust the often-combative NAACP chapter
president Mondesire, turning the NAACP presidential
election into a battleground to settle long-standing
political vendettas for personal reasons totally unrelated
to Mondesire's performance as NAACP president.
- Letter to NAACP
- By Susan Abulhawa, 3 December 2000. The daughter of
Palestinian refugees expelled from their homes at gun
point in 1967 expresses deep sadness at seeing
Bond's signature in the NY Times in support of
Israel, a government that has systematically, for decades,
oppressed and enslaved the native Palestinian
population.
- 92nd Annual NAACP Convention
Address
- By Julian Bond, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New
Orleans, Louisiana, 8 July 2001. The theme for our
Convention is an old Quaker maxim: follow your highest
sense of right, whatever the consequences, however lonely
the path and however loud the jeers. This is a
prescription we ought to follow today: agitation,
nonviolence, and a refusal to cooperate. Speaking truth to
power.
- The price of silence
- Editor, The Black Commentator, 17 October 2002.
At times it seems we can almost hear the roar of approaching
war—but little outcry is heard from the national office of
the NAACP. Sadu Nanjundiah, a physics teacher at Central
Connecticut State University, is more than disappointed with the
nation's oldest civil rights organization.
- NAACP hit for policy on Cuba
- By Steve Miller, The Washington Post, [17
July 2003]. Undated Post article with running
commentary. Cuban dissidents accuse the NAACP of a double
standard in its promotion of human rights, defending those
of blacks in South Africa while embracing—rather
than condemning—the treatment of blacks in
Cuba.
- A Militant Liberalism: Anti-Communism and the
African American Intelligentsia, 1939–1955
- By Daniel W. Aldridge, III, Davidson College, Conference
Paper for the 2004 American Historical Association, December
2003. In their zeal to rehabilitate the Cold War's
domestic victims and to criticize the shortcomings of the
post-civil rights era, many writers have accepted an
incomplete and romanticized picture of the Left. The paper
supports the liberal position against Du Bois' radical
critique of society.
- USA's Oldest Civil Rights Group
Investigated after anti-Bush Speech
- Radio Havana Cuba, 30 October 2004. The US's Internal
Revenue Service has informed the country's oldest and
largest civil rights organization that it is investigating
whether the group improperly
intervened in a political
campaign
when it posted on its website a speech by its
chairman that condemned the Bush administration's
policies.
- The Bruce Gordon Resignation: You Can't
Know The NAACP If You've Never Been In The NAACP
- By Anthony Asadullah Samad, The Black Commentator,
15 March 2007. Bruce Gordon's resignation as President
(formerly called the Executive Director) of the NAACP. He was
a change activist; no change activist is a fit for the NAACP.
- Unappologetically young, Black and female...: The
relevance of the NAACP to someone under 40
- By Jasmyne A. Cannick, The Black Commentator,
15 March 2007. It's only been 19 months and already NAACP
President Bruce Gordon has called it quits, citing irreconcilable
differences with the management style of its 64-member board of
directors, a clear indication that the Black leadership is in a
serious crisis.