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...Meanwhile, other activists are taking similar steps. The NAACP has launched "Arrive With Five," a campaign encouraging its members to bring five friends to polling stations. In predominately black Cleveland, Basheer Jones, 23, is bringing voting-rights experts on his popular morning radio show to puncture the assumption that ex-felons can't vote. He is also promoting a rally and parties sponsored by black fraternities intended to get black Ohioans to vote early; the price of admission is a sticker proving that you voted. "We don't want anybody to have a reason to not vote," he says...
...issues after the film. The organized urban violence of the 1960s was most often a response to both civil discrimination and poverty in the black community, the panelists said. According to Walter C. Carrington ’52, the first student member on the board of directors of the NAACP and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, “the film showed what the Civil Rights Movement did not have time to accomplish—solving economic problems in the black community, especially poverty.” Similarly, Lawrence Hamm, leader of the Newark-based People?...
...earliest famous cases dealing with the issue, the NAACP objected to a 1972 political ad from a U.S. Senate candidate in Georgia named J.B. Stoner who was running on the National States Rights Party ticket. Stoner called himself a "white racist," and his ad said the "main reason why niggers want integration is because niggers want our white women." The Federal Communications Commission forced stations in Atlanta to accept the ad, citing freedom-of-speech protections...
...last visit to Saddleback was in December 2006 when he and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback spoke at Warren's annual conference on HIV/AIDS. Brownback went first and joked to the crowd that the last time he and Obama shared a stage, it was at a meeting of the NAACP and he didn't receive the most rousing of welcomes. Turning to Obama, he said, "Welcome to my house." The crowd laughed, but when it was Obama's turn, the Democrat had a message for his Republican colleague. "With all due respect, Sam," said Obama, "this is my house...
...letter claimed that Greenberg, a white civil rights lawyer, was objectionable because of his “apparent hostility toward historically predominantly Black educational institutions, his adamant refusal to relinquish directorship of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to a Black attorney, and his opposition to Black student associations on predominantly white campuses...