What did Rosa Parks do with the NAACP???
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( This Should Help you)\n\n\nRosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 4th February, 1913. When Rosa was a child her mother, Leona McCauley, separated from her husband and moved to Montgomery. McCauley was a school teacher and encouraged her daughter to be active in the struggle for civil rights. \n\nIn 1932 Rosa married a barber, Raymond Parks. Both were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and Rosa served as the secretary of the Montgomery chapter. Durng this period she became close friends with Philip Randolph, Edgar Nixon and Ella Baker. These activists worked within a range of different organizations. This included the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Established in 1942, by a group of students in Chicago, members were mainly pacifists who had been deeply influenced by Henry David Thoreau and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. The students became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. \n\nIn early 1947, CORE announced plans to send eight white and eight black men into the Deep South to test the Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. organized by George Houser and Bayard Rustin, the Journey of Reconciliation was to be a two week pilgrimage through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. \n\nThe Journey of Reconciliation began on 9th April, 1947. The team included George Houser, Bayard Rustin, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, Nathan Wright, Conrad Lynn, Wallace Nelson, Andrew Johnson, Eugene Stanley, Dennis Banks, William Worthy, Louis Adams, Joseph Felmet, Worth Randle and Homer Jack. \n\nMembers of the Journey of Reconciliation team were arrested several times. In North Carolina, two of the African Americans, Bayard Rustin and Andrew Johnson, were found guilty of violating the state's Jim Crow bus statute and were sentenced to thirty days on a chain gang. However, Judge Henry Whitfield made it clear he found that behaviour of the white men even more objectionable. He told Igal Roodenko and Joseph Felmet: "It's about time you Jews from New York learned that you can't come down her bringing your niggers with you to upset the customs of the South. Just to teach you a lesson, I gave your black boys thirty days, and I give you ninety." \n\nIn Montgomery, like most towns in the Deep South, buses were segregated. Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists considered using these tactics in Montgomery. However, under pressure from the NAACP, this never took place. Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP's legal department, was strongly against these tactics and warned that a "disobedience movement on the part of Negroes and their white allies, if employed in the South, would result in wholesale slaughter with no good achieved." \n\nIn early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery and arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. The NAACP now agreed to take up the Colvin incident as a test case. It believed that this would result in a similar outcome to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation in education. However, the NAACP decided to drop the idea when they discovered that Colvin was pregnant. They knew that the authorities in Montgomery would use this against them in the propaganda war that would inevitably take place during this legal battle. \n\nOn 1st December, 1955, Rosa Parks, left Montgomery Fair, the department store where she worked, and got on the same bus as she did every night. As always she sat in the "black section" at the back of the bus. However, when the bus became full, the driver instructed Rosa to give up her seat to a white person. This had happened to Rosa several times before. In fact, the same bus driver had forced her off the bus in 1943 for c
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Nice Article...Interesting....Yea the ACLU is the bomb.....I Have actually filed 2 reports on behalf of clients with them within the last 2 weeks ... but.... what I find more interesting is the fact that RACISM leaves such a void where one's brain should be
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Organizations (and I mean all of them!) have a tendency to outlive their usefulness; so even if there is no racism in 2050, my guess is that the NAACP will still be around.
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I was just about to post the same thing but you beat me too it! I guess great minds think alike!! I live in NY state and i saw no change. I even saw Mexicans here buying things, working, acting like nothing was new. No signs, No protesters, nothing. Business as usual here. Now i live in  trailer park, next to a gas station. And a lot of the population here is Hispanic and Mexican. I sat in my house and watch them go to the store, buy things, just act like nothing was wrong. If i didn't frequent Yahoo Answers then i would have never know about the marches yesterday. So I think that the "March" was poorly organized. It didn't reach every single aspect of our American lives or our city's. Like it was intended. And I thought that was the point? I know they marched in D.C., and New York City, and all the BIGGER city's in our country, but its the small city's that make up alot about this country. And we saw no effect. So i really wouldn't worry.. I don't think they accomplished much yesterday. Nothing at all.
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Try www.naacp.org or www.naacp.net.  If not successful, please Google.
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Liberals have done that to whites also, but not at the rate they have to blacks.  They preach that blacks are worthless and cannot do anything unless the Democrats/government is there to hold their hands.  I think the Dems are still holding a grudge against the end of their reign as slave holders.  They even lost their hold as sharecropper overlords, KKK members and Jim Crowe law writers.  Welfare was their last trick to destroy the black race.
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Only time well tell if this was good for america ! My view on affirmative action is it was racist , racist against both blacks and whites . I think it was a slap in the face to blacks , like saying you cant get jobs so well make to where you have too . Pretty messed up
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Yo whats crackalaken?... Good Questions..and being Black I can tell you the Panthers are reverse racism in the worst way. Anyone that listens to Farakhan is not the sharpest tool in the shed. I also found it funny that the ORIGINAL Klan(there a 3 diffent Klan Nations) after the Civil War was created to drive carpetbaggers(YANKEES) from the south and the 2nd coming of the Klan was the one that really started the Hangings and crap..they also hung quite a few whites and had 4 million members in the 30's. Bobby and Huey Long never came close to that with the Panthers. Both Org. now are not really strong, maybe people see that only as ONE can we do anything.
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She sat in the front, and refused to get up for a white man.  Her arrest started the successful boycott of buses; this lead to intergration on buses.  This happened in Alabama or Atlanta...I think.
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Probably won't happen.  A first big step is to get rid of the activists like Jesse Jackson since they are always focusing on the differences and every perceived injustice.  It seems to be their goal to prove that they are perpetual victims.  Too many people are voluntarily segregating themselves and this leads to distrust and fear of other groups because they don't understand each other.\n\nTo Sgtsnafu2: That quote isn't even about race.  Seems like you go through life looking only at race.  That makes you the ignorant racist.
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You'll have to do this homework assignment yourself. But you can get started by reading:\n\nhttp://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_civil_rights_movement
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Do you mean the NAACP?\nJust type NAACP into the search catagory and you'll get their website.
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Rosa parks died this past october - 10-24-05
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It's the EEOC, and they wont help you because their budget has been cut also. NAACP if you are black. ACLU if it a catastrophic incident, they even helped RUSH LIMBAUGH with his drug problems, and the court system.
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Interesting question.  I think the answer is that he doesn't intend to "do" anything with them.  He has an exemplary record of hiring minorities and supporting useful programs for them.  The better question is what will minorities "do" to help themselves by bettering themselves, working hard to become educated and starting and running their own businesses in a fair way.
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Mrs. King had the exact same ideals as those "liberals" you are bashing. They were also her friends. I'm sure they said nothing they thought inappropriate. Where ever she is, I'm sure she was applauding. Do you people even know what she went through and stood for? \n\nI think the Bush family were there for political gain. He hasn't attended a meeting with the NAACP in how long? Not too many folks at that funeral like him, but at least they were gracious enough to invite him...and yes, they did invite him.
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I am a member of the NAACP I also work at an HBCU.  I do not think there is a problem with it.  The people who have made the comments about it are only ignorant.  Race issues in this country would end if people would just quit talking about it.