National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Obama Presidency Oral History Back National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Index / Organizations Transcripts Darrell Padgett ...the crack law were denied when even the NAACP [National Association for th... ...law were denied when even the NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ] and other Black organization... Anthony Foxx ...was formally of the General Counsel of NAACP [National Association for th... ...of the General Counsel of NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ] during the later part of the Civi... Marc Morial ...for the National Urban League and the NAACP [National Association for th... ...National Urban League and the NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ]. There's no need. I said, “Well, no... Kimberlé Crenshaw ...after Emmett Till was killed, the NAACP got behind the idea that Mamie [E... Shirley Sherrod ...that that video of your speech to the NAACP [National Association for th... ...video of your speech to the NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ] was circulating? The Thursda... ...The next morning, I learned that the NAACP had condemned me. My yard was full o... ...turning around at that point. Then, NAACP finally decided to get a tape of th... ...bad. By now, the truth is out. The NAACP has learned that they were wrong. Bu... ...you got a call from Ben Jealous, of NAACP at the time, until then? No. They ha... Show more... Heather Foster ...leaders. I remember, the president of NAACP [National Association for th... ...I remember, the president of NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ] called me at the time when Ferguso... Ben Jealous ...seventeenth president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], the nation's oldest civi... ...for the Advancement of Colored People [ NAACP ], the nation's oldest civil right... ...was the youngest person to lead the NAACP , serving from 2008 to 2013. While a... ...serving from 2008 to 2013. While at the NAACP , Jealous served on the Knigh... ...enamored with Bruce Gordon at the NAACP . The question was, should we reall... ...Bruce Gordon and his leadership at the NAACP , or should we really help this risin... ...would decide to resign as head of the NAACP not too long after that conversation... ...that had inspired the call to form the NAACP . I had never been to Springfiel... ...was an organizer, cut my teeth at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Obama cut hi... ...of the cooperating law firms with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. For the firs... ...born. That's what the founding of the NAACP was about. And, frankly, the visions o... ...to become the next president of the NAACP ? My recollection, it was a New Yea... Show more... Mandy Carter ...out there, you know the network of the NAACP [National Association for th... ...you know the network of the NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ], Alice Huffman, California NAACP. An... ...People], Alice Huffman, California NAACP . And then you got Leon [W. Russell... ...at the hundredth anniversary of the NAACP , we finally got it. But why did i... ...why did it take a hundred years for the NAACP ? Let's have that conversation. Ar... ...just part of what happens. So, the NAACP —thank you Julian. Thank you, Alic... ...we were able to go to the first-ever NAACP convention in Philadelphia, and we se... Show more... Nadine Smith ...to go. And at the same time, the NAACP [National Association for th... ...go. And at the same time, the NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ] 's national conference was being hel... ...to me. Friends who were part of NAACP leadership at the state and nationa... ...conservative pastors tried to get the NAACP in Florida to rescind their support o... ...So I've known people who were running NAACP back before they were there, when the... Kylon Middleton ...We've had embargos and boycotts through NAACP [National Association for th... ...embargos and boycotts through NAACP [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ] and other entities on South Carolin... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Labor Labor go to the Hawaii Hawaii go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation