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	Nazismo
		National Association for the advancement of White People Junior
		National Association for the advancement of White People - Pennsylvania
		National Association for the advancement of White People - Georgia
	www.olavodecarvalho.org /sseal/nazismo.htm

	UGA African American Studies
		In 1923 Carver won the Spingarn award, the highest annual prize given by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
		He is perhaps best known for his work in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909 and helping it to become the country's single most influential organization for African Americans.
		The Depression served as the context for the 1934 publication of her first poem, and the beginning of her association with the WPA Writer's Project, where her experience was enriched by her contact with other writers and artists.
	www.uga.edu /~iaas/History.html

	Truman Library - Truman Papers: President's Personal File (M-Z)
		National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 393
		National Guard Association of the United States, 2602
		National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 5573
	www.trumanlibrary.org /hstpaper/hstppf2.htm

	Dial-A-Nazi
		National Association for the Advancement of White People
		Theoritical journal of the International Union of National SocialistsPublished by the National Socialist White Peoples Party
		Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
	www.jdo.org /nazi.htm

	Universal Negro Improvement Association
		Like the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) Garvey campaigned against lynching, Jim Crow laws, denial of black voting rights and racial discrimination.
		The Universal Negro Improvement Association for five years has been proclaiming to the world the readiness of the Negro to carve out a pathway for himself in the course of life.
		Universal Negro Improvement Association is composed chiefly of the most primitive and ignorant element of West Indian and American Negroes.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAunia.htm

	A solution to the racism in America
		Imagine if you would a United Anglo College Fund, or National Association for the Advancement of White People.
		Fortunately, we have enough people in all these "ethnic groups" who are smart enough to ignore such trivial facts like "my skin is white and yours is black, and therefore we are different and have different needs".
		Therefore white people are exclusively hate-filled, oppressive beasts.The white man must be punished!
	www.scottbomb.com /solution.html

	Mary White Ovington
		With the assistance of Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, and others, Ovington founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1910.
		Denounced in the press as "decadent" for her political association with African American leaders, Ovington, undaunted, turned her attention to the problem of lynching and to the increasing frequency of race riots in both the South and the North.
		In the winter of 1890, shortly before her graduation from The Packer Collegiate Institute, Mary White Ovington and a male companion attended a lecture at Plymouth Church given by the renowned Frederick Douglass.
	www.columbia.edu /~kss2008/6ovington.html

	TomPaine.com - Archives - We Are The National Rifle Association
		Many of the C of CC’s current members have ties to openly racist, white-supremacist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan, the National Association for the Advancement of White People and the White Citizens Councils.
		A picture of Barr embracing a C of CC national director appeared in the organization’s official newspaper, the Citizens Informer.
		According to Gordon Lee Baum, the C of CC’s chief executive, Barr "knew what we were all about before he spoke to us.
	www.tompaine.com /feature.cfm/ID/5597

	Kenneth Janken - White: The Biography of Walter White - CyberLC
		This is the first biography about Walter White, who served as executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931 to 1955, and is credited with bringing the NAACP to national prominence.
		Historian David Levering Lewis has called White "the civil rights virtuoso of the mid-20th century, whose literary salesmanship helped launch the Harlem Renaissance and whose organizational leadership made possible Brown v.
		Kenneth Janken, associate professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussed his new book, White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr.
	www.loc.gov /locvideo/white

	Colored - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite the negative connotations it may have today, "colored" was once a term used virtually universally in the U.S., and it came to be used as part of the name of the NAACP—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
		"Person of color" or "people of color" remain widely accepted terms for people who are not white and, (especially in the United States and Canada), for members of a minority group or peoples of Third World origin.
		Colored and person of color (or people of color in the plural sense) are terms that were commonly used to describe people who do not have white skin or a Caucasian appearance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/People_of_color

	William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
		In 1909 Du Bois was among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and from 1910 to 1934 served it as director of publicity and research, a member of the board of directors, and editor of the Crisis, its monthly magazine.
		All of his efforts were geared toward gaining equal treatment for black people in a world dominated by whites and toward marshaling and presenting evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority.
		William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major African American scholar, an early leader in the 20th-century African American protest movement, and an advocate of pan-Africanism.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/web_dubois.htm

	Mary White Ovington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ovington retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in 1947 and in doing so, ended her thirty-eight years service with the organisation.
		Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Ovington joined the Socialist Party in 1905, where she met people such as Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race.
		Walling ended the article by calling for a powerful body of citizens to come to their aid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_White_Ovington

	Links to Political Internet Sites: Page 3
		Was once leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, then left to establish the National Association for the Advancement of White People, was recently a Member of Parliament in Louisiana.
		White Racial-Religious Organisation (has been labelled as part of the "Christian Identity" movement).
		Also, an Australian League of Rights leaflet has been put onto The Australian Politics Resource site.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/13409/20031126/members.ozemail.com.au/_natinfo/links3.htm

	Ovington, Mary White -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		American civil rights activist, one of the white reformers who joined blacks in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		name applied to wood of northern white cedar and southern white cedar; northern white cedar is pale brown, soft, aromatic, fine grained, resistant to decay; used for posts, ties, ribs of canoes;...
		The Australian novelist Patrick White observed his country as it went through the volatile process of growth and self-definition.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9125038

	Washingtonpost.com: Conservative Group Accused Of Ties to White Supremacists
		In a report called "Sharks in the Mainstream," the center contended that "many members" of the CCC have ties to the Ku Klux Klan and the National Association for the Advancement of White People, both "openly white supremacist organizations." The White Citizens Councils and the KKK were the two major Southern organizations opposed to desegregation.
		The problem for white people is that since they're only 10 percent of the humans on Earth, they are going to have to struggle mightily to survive the Neo-Melting Pot and avoid being part of the brown glop."
		The Southern Poverty Law Center yesterday charged that the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which has sponsored speeches by a number of prominent elected officials, is the "reincarnation of the infamous White Citizens Councils."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/daily/dec98/southern19.htm (742 words)

	Walter Francis White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Francis White ( July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia- March 21, 1955, New York, New York) was a spokesman for blacks in the United States for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary ( 1931 - 1955) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
		White, who was blonde and blue-eyed and able to pass for white, was granted credentials from the Chicago Daily News.
		While the NAACP continued to press for passage of anti-lynching legislation, it achieved more headway through litigation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Francis_White (742 words)

	Walter Francis White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia - March 21, 1955, New York, New York) was a spokesman for blacks in the United States for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931-1955) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
		White, who was blonde and blue-eyed and able to pass for white, was granted credentials from the Chicago Daily News.
		White faced Southern justice first-hand in October, 1919, when the NAACP sent him to investigate the violence known as the Elaine Race Riot in Phillips County, Arkansas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Francis_White (501 words)

	Walter Francis White Biography / Profile of Walter Francis White Biographies
		Walter Francis White (1893-1955), general secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for 24 years, was an outspoken critic of lynching and racial injustice in America.
		The younger of two sons in a family of seven children, all light enough to pass for white, he was raised in an eight room, two story house on the edge of the ghetto.
		Walter White was born in 1893 in Atlanta, Georgia.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-francis-white (501 words)

	MSN Encarta - Walter White
		Appointed assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918, he thereafter investigated race riots and lynchings and championed victims of racial injustice.
		In 1945 White acted as consultant to the U.S. delegation at the organizational meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco.
		President Franklin D. Roosevelt drew upon the experience of White and the NAACP when he established a fair employment practices committee in 1941.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558749/Walter_White.html (501 words)

	Walter Francis White
		From 1931 until his death he was secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and tirelessly fought against racial discrimination and violence in the United States.
		Francis LaFlesche and the world of letters.(race, identity, and social status)(Critical Essay) (The American Indian Quarterly)
		White's defense of African-American rights is vividly recorded in his autobiography,
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852094.html (194 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: White, Walter (Francis) (1893-1955)@ HighBeam Research
		A leading member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he fought against lynching and launched numerous campaigns against segregation in public facilities, white primaries, and the poll taxes, and against educational discrimination.
		Journalistic research he conducted in Europe, published as A Rising Wind (1945), influenced President Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the armed forces.
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: White, Walter (Francis) (1893-1955)@ HighBeam Research
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100186418&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (187 words)

	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
		The white population of Little Rock were furious that they were being forced to integrate their school and Faubus described the federal troops as an army of occupation.
		White was an outstanding propagandist and articles that he wrote about African American civil rights appeared in a variety of journals including Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, The Nation, Harper's Magazine and the New Republic.
		His assistant was Walter Francis White, and together they managed to rapidly increase the size of the organization.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAnaacp.htm (187 words)

	African American Journey.
		White served as secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931 until his death.
		White received the Spingarn Medal in 1937 for promoting the rights of blacks.
		White also wrote two novels that dealt with race relations, Fire in the Flint (1924) and Flight (1926).
	www.worldbook.com /features/aajourney_new/html/aa_3_h_white.shtml (187 words)

	White, Walter -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. in full Walter Francis White foremost spokesman for African Americans for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931–55) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Discussion examining the events of the standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, U.S., where the wife and son of white separatist Randy Weaver, as well as a deputy U.S marshall, were killed, with host Ray Suarez on NPR's Talk of the Nation (Sept. 11, 1995).
		Exploration of the U.S. presidency and the White House.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9076813 (187 words)

	Walter Francis White
		Walter F. White was a special investigator of lynching for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP).
		White was a strong believer in the simple thing known as Justice.
		Walter F. White was born not like any other negro.
	www.geocities.com /jhs_06972004/walterfwhite.html (187 words)

	AllRefer.com - Walter Francis White (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia
		From 1931 until his death he was secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and tirelessly fought against racial discrimination and violence in the United States.
		White's defense of African-American rights is vividly recorded in his autobiography, A Man Called White (1948).
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Social Reformers > Walter Francis White
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/White-Wa.html (187 words)

	White, Walter -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. in full Walter Francis White foremost spokesman for African Americans for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931–55) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Mondale, Walter F. 42nd vice president of the United States (1977–81) in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and Democratic candidate for president in 1984.
		Discussion examining the events of the standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, U.S., where the wife and son of white separatist Randy Weaver, as well as a deputy U.S marshall, were killed, with host Ray Suarez on NPR's Talk of the Nation (Sept. 11, 1995).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9076813 (187 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Walter White
		White served for many years as the first secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Committed to nonviolent protest, he became an organizer of the Freedom Rides in the early 1960s, aimed at challenging segregation in the South.
		Chronicles the activities and accomplishments of the man who spent many years in the antilynching crusade, wrote novels and studies exposing racial discrimination, and spoke out against the segregation of troops during World War II.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1562943782 (187 words)

	Walter Francis White
		From 1931 until his death he was secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and tirelessly fought against racial discrimination and violence in the United States.
		The origins of the Southern Baptist Convention: a historiographical study: the purpose of this paper is to describe how white Baptist church historians of the South have interpreted the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention since 1845.
		THE BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD OF WALTER ASHBY PLECKER HOW AN OBSCURE BUREAUCRAT TRIED TO ERADICATE VIRGINIA'S "THIRD RACE".(FRONT) (The Virginian Pilot)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852094.html (187 words)

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