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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Paula J. Giddings Abstract In 1930, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was surprised and disappointed to find that, despite her pioneering role as an anti-lynching activist and a founder of the NAACP, her name was not included in a contemporary Black history text by Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Negro...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Paula Giddings Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY Missingin Action Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record PAULA GIDDINGS When Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)1 sat down at her long dining room table in 1928, three years before her death, to begin writing her...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Law School, receiving her J.D. in 1946. That same year, she entered into an almost twenty-year association with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).Working as an assistant (and later associate) counsel for the NAACP'sLegal Defense and Educational Fund (LDEF...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and public institutions, national and local, shall act in conformity with this obligation.” The United States imprisons the greatest number of people in the world (ICPR n.d.). The U.S. is only 5 percent of the world’s population but imprisons 25 percent of prisoners in the world (NAACP 2021 ). People who...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 March 2002
...-U.S. sculptor Anne Whitney. 16. It is not yet clear to me who commissioned these busts. I would look for these commissions from black racial uplift organizations such as the NAACP, Black Women's club movements, Black Colleges, sororities, and fraternities, or from wealthy Black or white patrons who...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
... as Moody and someone she closely identifies with on that basis—sowing outrage and anger as well as terror in her heart. Moody’s teachers also tell her about other things her mother will not discuss with her, such as the work of the NAACP and the growing fight to desegregate the South. These conversations...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 155–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
... link to the burgeoning women's movement. Black women, as leaders in civil rights movement organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Student Nonviolent...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–88), 1838. 4 Personal correspondence from Governor Hugh Dorsey to John R. Shilladay of the NAACP, personal correspondence, November 19, 1918, www.maryturner.org/images/Dorsey.pdf . ...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 3 , no. 2 : 17 – 19 . Giddings Paula . 2001 . “ Missing in Action: Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 1 , no. 2 : 1 – 17 . Green Emily . 2020 . “ Tasing of Two College Students in Atlanta Provokes More...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 171–203.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... In an article entitled "NAACP Seeks Solutions to Crisis of Black Males," published in the Los Angeles Times, ro July 1990, Ron Harris quoted Kunjufu as stating that "'Black mothers tend to raise their daughters and love their sons They teach their daughters to be responsible and not their sons Others, like...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 126–165.
Published: 01 March 2008
... sit-ins, and things like that. And so I appeared on television, and I got called in by the adult chapter of the NAACP,and they said, "Well, this is not what we should be doing." Direct action was not part of their policy. They had a legislative and judicial approach: go to the courts and change...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 124–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of the Dayton NAACP,and co-founder of Dayton CORE:he sounded unenthusiastic, and then my name registered; "Ezekiel?" he repeated. "Jewish?" When I said yes, he answered warmly, "sure, come on down." 10. One exceptional flash of understanding came to me when I was at college. A friend of my housemate, a Chicano...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... want to call somebody's name but after the very famous episode by the NAACP,where a certain black woman was fired,4 a group of us were having dinner with her afterwards and I think Harriet would be on the same page as us. I think Harriet would say to President Obama: "Come to my house, and let me give...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of a total 1,400 organizations; only twenty women of color groups had endorsed the march at the beginning (Cassie 2004 ; Otis 2004 ; Kashef 2005 ). Significantly, the NAACP publicly endorsed the reproductive rights march, which was the first time ever for the ninety-five-year-old civil rights organization...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Press . Laville Helen , and Lucas Scott . 1996 . “ The American Way: Edith Sampson, the NAACP, and African American Identity in the Cold War .” Diplomatic History 20 , no. 4 : 565 – 90 . Leslie Grace Victoria . 2011 . “ United for a Better World: Internationalism...
