Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this reason, the President pleaded with Negro leaders to ease the current tensions and cease massive public demonstrations. His appeal was immediately rejected, and this week Roy Wilkens, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) told his organization's national convention that leaders will "accelerate, accelerate, accelerate" the drive toward integration. He also promised marches on Washington this summer if the promised filibuster materializes...
Medgar W. Evers, a Negro integrationist leader in Mississippi, was assassinated near his Jackson home yesterday morning. "The fight is here," Evers had said when offered a job at the NAACP headquarters in New York City. "I expect to be shot. I might die. But that's the risk." His slaying is the most barbaric act in the ugly story of race relations this decade...
...town leaders recognize NAACP members as the true spokesmen of the Negro community. Instead they refer to a wealthier class of local Negroes: men who, by slightly superior education, have long been leaders in their isolated world. These people, of course, have as much to lose by integration as the most conservative white man. They band together with white leaders to keep segregation alive...
Taken together these wealthy Uncle Toms and the militant members of the NAACP comprise only a small proportion of the Negro community here. Most Negroes have remained silent about civil rights. "You workin' for civil rights?" one young Negro asked a colored member of our project. "Man, you backin' the wrong horse. They'll never let you get anywhere so you better get out and make the money...
...confines of this topsy-turvy half-world. Since "doing well" often means that husband and wife must work as many as twelve hours day, few people have time to worry about anything outside their personal problems: food, entertainment, and a little extra money. Unless a group such as the NAACP sets out deliberately to arouse the community, not many of these Negroes would even think about taking the risks that the phrase "fighting for equal rights" implies