NAACP

North Carolina NAACP leader released from jail after voting rights protest

June 18, 2015 By Special to People’s World

"We were planning to stay in jail overnight in defiance against being arrested, unconstitutionally, based on the sound or volume of our voices."

Colorado NAACP office vows vigilance after blast near office

January 8, 2015 By Sadie Gurman

Staff members at a Colorado NAACP office say they are waiting for more information before drawing conclusions about an explosion near their chapter.

Today in women’s history: Civil rights leader and suffragist Ida B. Wells died

March 25, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Wells was an outstanding civil rights activist and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“Devil in the Grove”: Must-read Pulitzer Prize winner

May 30, 2013 By LaBarre Blackman

In 1961, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 2013, Gilbert King's "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America " won...

Today in labor history: NAACP appeals to UN on denial of voting rights

October 23, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1947 the NAACP at the initiative of W.E.B. Du Bois presented an "Appeal to the World" to the United Nations, charging systematic discrimination against African Americans. The Appeal noted that "three-fourths of...