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...Tools. Critics were quick to call the report premature and unsubstantiated. NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkens wondered whether Coleman was being used to "draw the Negro away from the courts." But Coleman still firmly believes in school integration. The problem, he says, lies in the way that courts have tried to bring it about. "It is ludicrous to attempt to mandate an integrated society. Integration must come through other means...
...recommended "Birth of a Nation" to the audience as a film classic. "Birth of a Nation," released in 1915, marked a great leap forward for the fledgling film industry, introducing moving cameras, night filming and a musical score. But even at the time it was bitterly criticized (by the NAACP and by President Emeritus Charles William Eliot among others) for its racist content...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a more successful venture, but DuBois's own relationship with the organization was tempestuous. He served as the editor of Crisis, NAACP's official publication until 1933, when he found that his program for "Negro self-sufficiency" and limited segregation was not acceptable to the group's liberal leadership. He returned in 1944, only to be dismissed by the NAACP in 1948 as part of a campaign to purge communists and communist sympathizers from its ranks...
...told an NAACP convention in 1963: "There are no ghettoes in Chicago...
Applications to minority programs which will run this year have soared. More than twice as many students as last year applied to work in business firms through the NAACP's Positive Program, Charlotte M. Nelson, the program's director of employment services, said last month. But so far the program has found only half as many spots for applicants as last year because employers cannot afford to pay interns' salaries...