Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a long history of rancor between the MFDP and the Young Dem-NAACP coaliiton. A meeting between leaders of the two groups last month resulted in little agreement on whether to join forces in a challenge, but another meeting is scheduled for next week...
...Young Dems and the NAACP, on the other hand, stand an excellent chance of setting up a formidable delegation. It is probable that a number of powerful industrialists and Delta planters who favor President Johnson will lend their support to a challenge...
...election is seen not only as a defeat for Negroes and the MFDP, but also as a victory for NAACP leader Charles Evers, who has been described as Mississippi's "Tammany boss...
...hung by her feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed to death by the heel of one of the white men present." (The NAACP's useful monograph, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, long out of print, has just been reprinted and is available from the New York office for a dollar.) Also on view here is Mrs. Fuller's powerful 1937 work, "The Talking Skull," which depicts a nearly naked lad kneeling...
...NAACP conference opened last night with welcomes from Cardinal Cushing, Governor Volpe, and Mayor Collins and a keynote address by Roy Wilkins, executive director of the organization...