Word: naacp
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This year, the ARCO Forum has hosted numerous political figures, including NAACP Head Julian Bond, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and Mary Robinson, president of Ireland...
...Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was quick to voice its opinion on the matter. The day after the Crimson article was published James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the NAACP, sent a telegram to Harvard President Lowell and the board of overseers of the University. It stated...
...W.E.B. DuBois had noted in the NAACP's Crisis magazine that President Lowell, "when asked by the NAACP to join leading Americans in denouncing lynching, did not even acknowledge the letter." And in January 1923, the New York Times and the prominent black publications Negro World, Defender, Crisis and Messenger broke the story of President Lowell's unabashed support for a policy excluding blacks from freshmen dormitories...
Several minority students and civil rights groups, including the NAACP, have filed a lawsuit against the university system. The lawsuit alleges that current university admissions policies are discriminatory because advanced placement courses--classes which many minority students are unable to take by virtue of the high school they attended--figure in highly. At the very least, the Board of Regents must reexamine those admissions policies which are under attack...
Lynch said about a dozen groups and individuals, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Department of Education, approached the committee to ask that it not appeal the decision...