Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will. More than an icon, Mrs. Parks is symbolic of the thousands of courageous NAACP workers who fight for civil rights in their communities.
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In the strongest terms, the Bush-Cheney campaign condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made against Senator Lieberman by the Dallas, Texas NAACP President Lee Alcorn. When it comes to fighting anti-Semitism, Governor Bush and Secretary (Dick) Cheney stand shoulder-to-shoulder with all Americans in condemning such foolish utterances.
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.
Under Carl's leadership the NAACP became more of a service organization for cases of discrimination against individuals. I plan to continue the service organization approach. This branch was recognized (under Mack) as the number one branch in the nation. We know how to fight discrimination best. I feel we can make a difference while utilizing the experience of the older leadership. I still have past leaders Judge Charles V. Johnson and Judge Donald Haley and others to go to for advice.
I look forward to working with the NAACP in bringing immediate and ongoing aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a heart attack that revealed a long history of social illnesses. You can't be human and watch all these different things go down and not do anything, ... People from all over the world are looking at these images and saying, wow we just really want to help. So at the end of the day it's all of us.
The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.
This is a good compromise. We realized in talking to the NAACP about this we had some of the same goals.
But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.
He has quite an admirable record of race relations in Mississippi and got the unanimous support of the African-American community in Mississippi, including the NAACP.
It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major battle that they fought, because this was major propaganda.
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
The current leadership of the NAACP has certainly made some rather hostile political comments about the president over the past few years.
Nevertheless we want to address the concerns raised by the NAACP in the press as expeditiously as possible, ... If there is something there, we will deal with it. If not, we want to clear the program's name. We do not want unspecified allegations to impugn the integrity of a program that has been held in high regard locally and nationally.
The NAACP will consider filing a lawsuit, or joining existing parties seeking court relief, to protect the voting rights of black voters. The NAACP favors out-of-state satellite voting sites and charges the state to meet the burden of making sure that African American voters receive accurate voter information.
I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.