 |
 The
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) was founded
by both blacks and whites following race riots in
Springfield, Illinois, in 1908. |
 Benjamin
"Pap" Singleton helped
organize the "Great Exodus" of freed
blacks from Tennessee to Kansas following the
Civil War. |
 Ralph David
Abernathy was a co-founder of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference and an
organizer of the Poor People's Campaign March on
Washington, D.C. |
 John Mercer Langston
became the first African-American to be elected
to a public office in the United States when he
was elected Town Clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio, in
1854. |
 John Lewis Waller
founded the first black newspaper in Kansas in
1882, and in 1888 became the first ever black
Presidential elector when he cast an Electoral
College vote for Republican candidate Benjamin
Harrison. He also served as U.S. Consul to
Madagascar from 1891 to 1894. |
