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...wasn’t going to give up her seat on the bus, which incidentally started the Montgomery bus boycotts, and Dr. King took it from there. You never hear that she was deeply concerned with civil rights before the bus incident, serving as volunteer secretary of her NAACP chapter, or that after refusing to give up her seat and subsequently being arrested, she made it her business to educate others around the country about civil rights, quite independently of Dr. King. Now, obviously, none of this should be surprising to anyone. Black womanhood is the epitome of the dreaded...
...week after the president of Cambridge’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter compared the Cambridge public schools to an “apartheid educational system,” concerns continue to overshadow a new benchmarking initiative aimed at closing the achievement gap between minority and white students. The new initiative would collect data on student performance from standardized tests in an effort to identify gaps across subject areas. According to Cambridge public school administration officials, the new benchmarking system is necessary to raise the level of achievement of Cambridge students and give...
...could accept this report if white students scored at 100 percent all the time,” said civil rights leader Kathy Reddick, the president of the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP...
...Other students, though, say there had been no problems with racial tension until the NAACP started agitating about the purple-and-gold flag...
...Vincent, the black running back, supports a ban, but not for the same reasons as the NAACP chapter...