01/01/2009
 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. |
American History.--United States: General.
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