At the invitation of James Weldon Johnson, White moved to New York and in 1918 started working at the national headquarters of the NAACP.

Du Bois, editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis, and in 1926 moved to New York City, settling in Harlem, during the Harlem Renaissance.

From the NAACP, he moved to the Southern Regional Council and then to the Voter Education Project.

Once the plans were announced, the SEC had moved that tournament to Greenville, with considerable protest from the NAACP.

" During this time, Willkie also worked with Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, to try to convince Hollywood to change its portrayal of blacks in the movies.

Powell worked closely with Clarence Mitchell, the NAACP representative in Washington, to try to gain justice in federal programs.

When black residents of Harlem rioted in 1935 after false reports that a youth arrested for shoplifting had been killed by the police, Communist Party activists joined with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and NAACP leader Walter White to try to avert further violence.

The lawyers from the NAACP had to gather some plausible evidence in order to win the case of Brown vs. Education.

The Topeka Public Schools administration building is named in honor of McKinley Burnett, NAACP chapter president who organized the case.

The NAACP took up their case, however, only when the students — by a one vote margin — agreed to seek an integrated school rather than improved conditions at their black school.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund brought the Swann case on behalf of six-year-old James Swann and nine other families, with Julius L. Chambers presenting the case.

The case represented the second appearance before the Court of Solicitor General John W. Davis and the first case in which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) filed a brief.

The Alabama state circuit court finally heard the case on the merits, and decided the NAACP had violated Alabama law and ordered it to stop doing business in the state ; the Alabama appeals courts upheld this judgment, refusing to hear the NAACP's appeals on Constitutional grounds.

He submitted his application in concert with the NAACP as a test case.

When it was time to argue the Elaine 12 case before the Supreme Court, the NAACP decided to replace Jones with Moorfield Storey and former assistant U. S. attorney Ulyssess S. Bratton.

The case articulated an important rule of law in the sequence of NAACP cases leading to the eventual desegregation order: that any academic program that a state provided to whites had to have an equivalent available to blacks.

Heman Marion Sweatt, later the plaintiff in another desegregation case heard by the Supreme Court, worked with Gaines at the University of Michigan, where the NAACP had paid for him to attend graduate school in the meantime, and reportedly found him " rather arrogant.

By that time Gaines had received honors ( some described as posthumous ) and the FBI had accepted the case as the oldest of nearly a hundred civil-rights era disappearances referred to it by the NAACP.

In 1953 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund asked Commager for advice for their argument before the Supreme Court for the case of Brown vs Board of Education, but at the time he was not persuaded that this litigation would succeed on historical grounds, and so advised the lawyers.

The Prince George's County Public Schools was ordered to pay the NAACP more than $ 2 million in closing attorney fees and is estimated to have paid the NAACP over $ 20 million over the course of the case.

The NAACP also offered to handle the case, offering the services of famed attorney Clarence Darrow.

Sweatt and the NAACP next went to the federal courts, and the case ultimately reached the U. S. Supreme Court.

State of Texas vs. NAACP case records, 1911-1961 1945-1961.

The NAACP put together a legal defense of the men convicted and carried the case to the Supreme Court.

The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, prompted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to confront the Interstate Commerce Commission with its failure to enforce a bus desegregation ruling it had handed down in 1955, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, 64 MCC 769 ( 1955 ) as well as the companion train desegregation case, NAACP v. St. Louis-Santa Fe Railway Company, 297 ICC 335 ( 1955 ).

He repeatedly refuses to play the " race card " even when baited to do so by several reporters, is clearly much more politically conservative than an attorney arguing such a case at the time might have been expected to be, and is shown to be in sharp contrast with Lucien on such matters, as well as with Ellen, to whom he expresses his strong support for the death penalty ( just not for Carl Lee ) and his contempt for the ACLU and, to a lesser extent, the NAACP.

* President Obama's Speech to the NAACP on July 16, 2009 — full video by MSNBC

His work on the series earned him the 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

In 2002, the NAACP awarded Marrow with a second Image Award, again for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, for his work on Law & Order: SVU.

Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ( NAACP ) million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on the organization's board until 1967.

Though none of the men were found guilty by the all-white jury ( as blacks had been disfranchised under the South Carolina constitution, they could not serve on juries ), Thurmond was congratulated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) for his efforts.

White however had not yet seen the film ; his statement was based on memos he received from two NAACP staff members who attended a press screening on November 20, 1946, Norma Jensen and Hope Springarn.

" Both Jensen and Springarn were also confused " by the film ’ s Reconstruction setting, states Jim Hill Media, writing that “ It was something that also confused other reviewers who from the tone of the film and the type of similar recent Hollywood movies Jezebel ( film ) | Jezebel assumed it must also be set during the time of slavery .” Based on the Jensen and Springarn memos, White released the “ official position ” of the NAACP in a telegram that was widely quoted in newspapers.

Tidyman was honored by the NAACP for his work on the Shaft movies and books.

In September 1975, the Georgia Legal Services Program, on behalf of local NAACP members, filed suit in US District Court, alleging that women and blacks were systematically excluded from grand juries responsible for appointing members to the McIntosh County Board of Education.

While the black community has long played an important role in the city, the City of Hanford only began to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 15, 2007 after a long battle led by the local branch of the NAACP.

James Cameron went on to serve as the Indiana State Director of Civil Liberties from 1942 – 1950 and founded three local chapters of the NAACP.

The NAACP had accepted and litigated other cases, including that of Irene Morgan 10 years earlier, which resulted in a victory in the U. S. Supreme Court on Commerce Clause grounds.

CAIR works in close cooperation with other civic and civil liberties groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, NAACP, Hispanic Unity, Organization of Chinese Americans, Japanese American Citizens League, Sikh Mediawatch, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and Resource Task Force.

The Association, represented throughout by Robert L. Carter of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, responded by moving to dissolve the order on the grounds that its activities within the state did not require its qualification under the statute and that the state's suit was intended to violate its rights to freedom of speech and of assembly as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

Lead attorney on NAACP v. Alabama, Judge Robert L. Carter, with the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, William TreanorThe United States Supreme Court reversed the first contempt judgment.

* Bruce Bennett, the Arkansas Attorney General sought in 1958 to impose limitations on the NAACP comparable to what had been done in Alabama.

* First Amendment Library entry on NAACP v. Alabama

As an officer of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP, he organized the first mass meeting of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest Rosa Parks ' arrest on December 1, 1955.

He served as a representative on the National Council for the Aged, the World Commission on Hunger, a Life Member of the National NAACP, the Progressive National Baptist Convention, the American Sociological Society, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, the Atlanta Baptist Ministers Union and on more than forty other organizations.