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Benjamin Hooks - Wikipedia  Benjamin Lawson Hooks (January 31, 1925  April 15, 2010) was an American civil rights leader. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of ... In his college years he became more acutely aware that he was one of a ... By the late 1960s Hooks was a judge, a businessman, a lawyer, and a...
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Encyclopdia Britannica: Black History  He participated in restaurant sit-ins of the late 1950s and early '60s and joined the Board of Directors of Martin Luther King's ... In July 1972 Hooks was appointed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and became the first black FCC commissioner. He resigned to become executive director of the NAACP on Aug.
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Benjamin L. Hooks | American jurist, minister and government ...  In July 1972 Hooks was appointed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and ... He resigned to become executive director of the NAACP on Aug.
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Hooks, Benjamin L. (1925-2010) | The Black Past: Remembered ...  Four years later he married schoolteacher Frances Dancy in Memphis. In 1956 ... (FCC). Hooks served on the Federal Communications Commission from 1972 to 1977. ... In line to become Chairman of the FCC, Hooks surprised many observers by accepting the offer to become executive director of the NAACP. At that time...
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Longtime Civil Rights Leader Hooks Dies at 85 - WSJ  Apr 16, 2010 ... Mr. Hooks stabilized the NAACP's finances and membership, but ... He rose quickly as a lawyer to become one of the first criminal-court judges in the South in 1965. Appointed by President Richard Nixon to the FCC in 1972, he called for ... And years later, he came out against President George H.W. Bush's...
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DEFIANT F.B.I. CHIEF REMOVED FROM JOB BY THE PRESIDENT ...  President Clinton today dismissed William S. Sessions, the Director of the ... Mr. Clinton said he would announce his nominee to replace Mr. Sessions on Tuesday. He was expected to pick Judge Louis J. Freeh of Federal District ... Published: July 20, 1993 ... be acting Director until a successor was confirmed by the Senate.
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NRC: Former NRC Commissioners  William A. Anders, .... Chairman Anders resigned 2 months before the end of his term. 2. ... First term expired on June 30, 1985; Thomas Roberts took Oath of Office for ... Kenneth C. Rogers served as Commissioner from August 7, 1987 to June 30, ... appointed Peter Lyons for two years (end of Senate's session late 2006).
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Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel ...  Jul 21, 2016 ... He's out. Roger Ailes resigned as chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel on ... 21st Century Fox responded to reports that Ailes  who became the founding CEO of Fox News in October 1996  would be exiting Fox News...
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Articles about Myrlie Evers Williams - latimes  February 20, 1995 | SAM FULWOOD III, TIMES STAFF WRITER. For Myrlie Evers-Williams, getting elected as chairwoman of the NAACP was the easy part. ... hire an executive director who can broaden its membership, drive it back onto the ... The widow of Medgar Evers fought back tears as Navy Secretary Ray Mabus,...
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The Scathing Speech That Made Television History | TIME  May 9, 2016 ... AP Newton N. Minow, FCC chairman, testifies before a Senate subcommittee on May 23, 1961, weeks after delivering his 'vast wasteland' speech. ... Washington, D.C. Minow had recently been named chairman of the Federal...
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NAACP | Oldest and Boldest  The only African American among the organization's executives, Du Bois was made ... The NAACP waged a 30-year campaign against lynching, among the ... law school dean whose strategy on school-segregation cases paved the way for his ... Led by Roy Wilkins, who succeeded Walter White as secretary in 1955, the...
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December 15, 1974 - The two crises of Ron Ziegler | Chicago ...  Dec 15, 1974 ... ... "government in exile," was appointed press secretary in 1968 at age 29. A onetime Jungle Cruise guide at. Disneyland, Ronald L. Ziegler had campaigned for the Republicans ... "The President only gave me a kind of shove.
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jeopardy/3045_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE SPORTS BIZ | In July 1998, after serving as acting baseball commissioner for 6 years, he was officially given the job by owners | Bud Selig. right: Bob.
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NAACP - United States History  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of bi-racial activists. Originally...
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A Call To Protect Media Diversity | Alternet  Mark Fowler, Reagan's first FCC chairman, is clearly the spiritual father of Michael Powell. ... unnecessary since TV was just another appliance, "a toaster with pictures. .... Has the so-called explosion in outlets, as Michael Powell would have it,...
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Bunche, Ralph Johnson - Infoplease  The first African American to be a division head in the Dept. of State (1945), he entered the United Nations in 1946 as director of the Trusteeship Division. He became (Dec., 1947) principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission and was...
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Kweisi Mfume - Wikipedia  Kweisi Mfume is the former President/CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as a five-term Democratic Congressman from Maryland's 7th congressional ... In February 1996, Mfume left the House to accept the presidency of the National Association for the Advancement of...
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Free Flashcards about BLACK HISTORY MO. - StudyStack  AN INSTRUMENTAL FIGURE IN ENDING SCHOOL SEGREGATION, ROY WILKINS HEADED THIS ORGANIZATION FOR OVER 20 YEARS, NAACP. IN 1939...
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naacp - Wikipedia  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an .... They sent out solicitations for support went out to more than 60 prominent .... In 1916, when the NAACP was just seven years old, chairman Joel Spingarn invited .... On a gospel talk radio show on station KHVN, Alcorn stated, "If we get a Jew...
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Civil Rights Leaders- Kweisi Mfume - Black History  Kweisi Mfume past president of the NAACP and former congressman ... at the Community College of Baltimore, where he served as head of the Black Student Union. ... In February 1996, Mfume left the House to accept the presidency of the National ... of Colored People, America's largest and oldest civil rights organization.
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Kweisi Mfume - Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Representative - Biography ...  Apr 2, 2014 ... Obtain information about Kweisi Mfume, the former President and CEO of the ... IN THESE GROUPS ... He entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1987. ... He retired from Congress in 1996 to become president and CEO of the ... in Maryland, Mfume grew interested in politics, becoming head of the...