Word: naacp
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...student panelists represented the Asian American Association (AAA), Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgender and Supporters Association (BGLTSA), Black Students Association (BSA), Campaign for a Living Wage, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the South Asian Association...
...boycott began when, on December 1, 1955, Parks, a secretary for the NAACP, refused to give up her seat to a white woman, violating a municipal...
...Every day, it seems, there are more lawsuits presenting intriguing new facts. In Seminole County, Democrats have filed a lawsuit claiming that Republicans illegally completed portions of some voters' absentee-ballot applications; some 4,700 votes are at stake. And the NAACP held hearings in Miami Nov. 11 in which black voters gave disturbing testimony about being intimidated from voting in a variety of ways - from being required to provide IDs that were not required of white voters to being denied legally required translators. The Justice Department is investigating the claims. Republicans, meanwhile, are charging Democrats with targeting more than...
...Heaven knows he tried. The Gore camp enlisted celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Stephen King to make phone calls and harnessed activist powerhouses like the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and the NAACP. The vice president trudged back and forth across the country entreating voters and making the case for informed, careful leadership. But he just couldn't find his voice, or a trace of momentum...
...leadership transcends the traditional view of the NAACP as an "all-black organization," according to Shivaram. With two blacks, two whites and one Indian, the officers "represent the changing face of the NAACP...