When the film was first released, Walter Francis White, the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) telegraphed major newspapers around the country with the following statement:

President Roosevelt and Walter White, then-executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Anderson's manager, impresario Sol Hurok, persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

The states knew about the trip and either took down the " Colored " and " White Only " signs, or didn't enforce the segregation laws.

I saw those signs that said " White Men, Colored Men, White Women, Colored Women ."...

Walter Francis White ( July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia – March 21, 1955, New York, New York ) was a civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for almost a quarter of a century and directed a broad program of legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement.

Tom Buchanan, the husband of Daisy Buchanan, the novel's principal woman character, was reading a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires by " this man Goddard ", a combination of Passing of the Great Race ( Grant ) and his colleague Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy ( Stoddard ; Grant wrote the introduction to Stoddard's book ).

# REDIRECT Colored gold # White gold

Handgrenades were supplied by the Americans, who provided M-59 ‘ baseball ’ Grenades, M-26A1 Fragmentation Grenades, M-34 White Phosphorus and M-18 Colored Smoke Grenades.

As part of his civic efforts, Harrison worked with St. Benedict's Lyceum ( along with bibliophile Arthur Schomburg from Puerto Rico, journalist John E. Bruce, and activist Samuel Duncan ); St. Mark's Lyceum ( with bibliophile George Young, educator / activist John Dotha Jones, and actor / activist Charles Burroughs ); the White Rose Home ( along with educator / activist Frances Reynolds Keyser ), and the Colored YMCA.

Terrell wrote an autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World ( 1940 ).

* " A Plea for the White South by a Colored Woman ", Nineteenth Century ( July 1906 ), 70-84

* A Colored Woman in a White World ( 1940 ), autobiography

A Colored Woman in a White World.

The National Association for the Advancement of White People is a name that has been used for several white nationalist / white supremacist organizations in the United States, deriving its name from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The riots were stopped when a group of White businessmen quickly printed and nailed up flyers saying that if the rioting continued they would start passing out firearms to the Colored population for their self-defence.

Du Bois joined with other black leaders and white activists, such as Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Henry Moskowitz, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, and Stephen Wise to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909.

A turning point for Nash came during a visit to the State Fair, when she saw bathrooms marked " White " or " Colored.

Logical matrix | Logical matrices of the Bell number | 52 equivalence relations on a 5-element set ( Colored fields, including those in light gray, stand for ones ; white fields for zeros.

Colored toilet paper in colors such as pink, lavender, light blue, light green, purple, green, and light yellow ( so that one could choose a color of toilet paper that matched or complemented the color of one's bathroom ) was commonly sold in the United States from the 1960s.

Colored light is occasionally useful for hunters tracking wounded game after dusk, or for forensic examination of an area.

Regiments, including infantry, cavalry, engineers, light artillery, and heavy artillery units, were recruited from all states of the Union and became known as the United States Colored Troops ( USCT ).

Colored inks, paints, or filters between the viewer and the light source or reflective surface subtract wavelengths from the light, giving it color.

Colored jars were considered better for canning use, as they block some light from reaching the food, which helps to retain flavor and nutritional value longer.

It is where, in 1881, Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers on a former plantation.

When Garnet was ten years old, his family reunited and moved to New York City, where from 1826 through 1833, Garnet attended the African Free School, and the Phoenix High School for Colored Youth.

Theodore S. Wright ( 1797-1847 ) was an African-American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor.

In 1918 he joined the small national staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York at the invitation of James Weldon Johnson, where he acted as Johnson's assistant national secretary.

Cracker Barrel is on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Texas Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), and is a corporate sponsor of the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, where three of its officials were moderators and panelists in May 2011.

William Grimshaw ’ s 1903 " Official History of Freemasonry Among the Colored People of North America " began the story that Prince Hall was born in Barbados to a European father and an African-European mother who fled to the British colony of Massachusetts where Hall became a Methodist minister.

The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers ' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers ' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High Plains, where the Granger movement had been strong, and the Colored Farmers ' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the African American farmers of the South.

By May, 1910 the National Negro Committee and attendants, at its second conference, organized a permanent body known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) where Ovington was appointed as its executive secretary.

After returning to the United States, New York's Music School Settlement for Colored — founded by the New York Symphony Orchestra's David Mannes — appointed him as director where he served from 1914 to 1919.

In 1909, Terrell was one of two black woman ( Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the other ) invited to sign the “ Call ” and to attend the first organizational meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), where she became a founding member.

Due to Brown's reputation as a powerful orator, he was invited to the National Convention of Colored Citizens, where he met other prominent abolitionists.

Upon his graduation from Colored High School, June 1912, Frazier was awarded the school's annual scholarship to Howard University in Washington, DC, from where he graduated with honors in 1916.

In 1852, he served as a delegate to the Convention of the Free Colored People of Maryland in Baltimore, where he resisted efforts to encourage emigration to Africa.

In 1975, Shange moved to New York City, where in that year her first and most well-known play was produced — For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.

Colored t-shirts under the uniform shirt are usually unaccepted, and students who violate uniform regulations are directed to the students ' issues office where they are ordered to change and pay a fee of JD1.

The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance.

In 1908 a large race riot erupted in the city which culminated in the lynching of two African American residents and led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

Built in 1922 with matching Rosenwald funds, the Midway Colored Public School featured oak and pine construction and two classrooms divided by a partition.

He was orphaned at the age of two, and sent to the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs ( also the alma mater of Louis Armstrong ).

The Army was authorized to raise two regiments of black cavalry ( the 9th and 10th ( Colored ) Cavalry ) and four regiments of black infantry ( the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st ( Colored ) Infantry ), who were mostly drawn from USCT veterans.

In 1869 the Regular Army was kept at 10 regiments of cavalry but cut to 25 regiments of Infantry, reducing the black complement to two regiments ( the 24th and 25th ( Colored ) Infantry ).

Catts ran on a platform of white supremacy and anti-Catholic sentiment and openly criticized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) when they complained he did nothing to investigate two lynchings in Florida.

One notable unit was a colored unit, known as the 102nd United States Colored Troops, which included two sons of Sojourner Truth and Josiah Henson ( the man Harriet Beecher Stowe used as the model for Uncle Tom ).

The Eastern Colored League ( ECL ) had been the eastern of two major Negro leagues from 1923 through 1927 until its collapse during the 1928 season.

in December, 2010 as well as two additional EPs Ukulele Colored Glasses EP and Temple of The Goddess EP in 2011.

Political activists in the movement also made attempts to unite the two Alliance organizations, along with the Knights of Labor and the Colored Farmers ' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, into a common movement.

Less than two years later, on August 22, 1938, Burley met the Cocoa Kid at Hickey Park in Millvale, Pennsylvania for the World Colored Welterweight Championship.

The Capitol Corridor and San Joaquin trains are the two routes most identified with the Amtrak California image, since they extensively use " California Colored " equipment.

These two officers developed a tradition of military service among young colored men in Washington which led some of them to enlist in World War I and others to be commissioned at the Colored Officers Training Camp in Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

He joined Company B of the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment as a private, but was promoted to corporal less than two months later, on May 17.

The SB also gained several features to distinguish it from the other two boards, most notably the Colored Names.

Walker's leadership extended to two major civil rights organizations in Virginia: he served as president for five years of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) and as state director of the Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ), which he co-founded in 1958.

Also, he felt he could not back down from buying the home because the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had just been revived after two years of inactivity in Detroit.

They were repulsed by two African American regiments ( about 1, 100 men ) of the United States Colored Troops ( USCT ) under the command of Brig.

In 1923, the two clubs were reunited in Atlantic City, and the Bacharach Giants became a founding member of the Eastern Colored League ( ECL ).

Troops from the Department of the Gulf, commanded by Maj Gen Banks, consisting of two infantry divisions from the XIII Corps, two infantry divisions from the XIX Corps, a cavalry division, and a brigade of US Colored Troops.