Brown, Carolyn J. “Sister Act: Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty”. Study the South.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Alice Walker | She took a job as a case-worker with New York City's welfare department. She found it especially hard dealing with psychiatric cases whose illness, she was aware, was the direct result of the dire circumstances... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Walker | To enable AW
to move north, Mel Leventhal
took a job in the New York office of the NAACP
, working for their Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two years after the divorce he married... |
| Reception | Alice Walker | Like the novel itself, the movie aroused indignation from those who felt that the language, the appearance, and the sexual activities of its characters, somehow demeaned black people as a whole. A group calling itself... |
Timeline
January 1909
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
was founded in New York by Mary White Ovington
, Leonara O'Reilly
, and Henry Moscowitz
.
12 May 1910
The AmericanNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) held its second annual conference and formally adopted its name.
12 June 1963
Medgar Evers
, field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP
, was assassinated, shot down from behind
December 1967
In the USA the NAACP
's Pittsburgh office issued a statement objecting to Planned Parenthood
's distribution of contraceptives, including the pill, in low-income areas, referring to the practice as an instrument of racial genocide...