National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2003

    Hour 1: An icon of civilian suffering: Dr. April Hurley, recently back from Baghdad, speaks about Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the badly-burned child amputee wounded in a missile strike on his house; Christian missionary groups head to Iraq to combine aid with evangelization: A debate between the Southern Baptist Convention, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and…

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2003

    Bechtel Group wins first major Iraq reconstruction contract: This comes 20 years after Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein seeking approval of a Bechtel-owned pipeline to run from Iraq to Jordan; The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line : On the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Souls of…

  • Democracy Now! December 24, 2002

    Is Bill Frist another Trent Lott? The NAACP and NOW gives the Tennessee Senator s record an F grade, consumer groups warn about his extensive ties to the medical and pharmaceutical industry. Today is Frist s first day as Senate Majority leader.; Christmas under Siege: Israeli pull back its troops in Bethlehem but warn residents…

  • Democracy Now! July 23, 1997

    Campaign Finance Abuses; Commerce Department; Police Brutality |(14 Minutes) Campaign Finance Abuses Democrats on the Senate panel investigating campaign finance abuses are expected to go on the offensive for the first time today. Accusations against Republican Party. GUEST: Dan Morgan, a reporter for the Washington Post. (19 Minutes) Commerce Department In hearings, the Senate Governmental…

  • W.E.B. DuBois (Episode 10 of 14)

    Ted Vincent discusses the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois, author, scholar, and founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Pan African Congress, and the Niagara movement.

  • James Weldon Johnson (Episode 13 of 14)

    Ted Vincent discusses the life and work of poet, historian, and social critic James Weldon Johnson, paying particular attention to his ten years as National Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • Mississippi today

    In this interview with Paul Brest, who was an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. based in Jackson, Mississippi from August 1966 to June 1968, Brest discusses racism, racial violence, and integration in Mississippi. The interviewer is Scott Keech.

  • Challenge to Negro leadership : the case of Robert Williams

    In the thirty spare minutes before the next broadcast, KPFA host Chris Koch reads aloud the article “Challenge to Negro leadership” regarding NAACP leader Robert Williams, written by Julian Mayfield, and published in Commentary Magazine, April 1961.

  • The Civil rights lawyer in the South

    Thom Hurwitz interviews three lawyers who work for the NAACP National Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated (The Inc. Fund), and who have taken part in the defense of demonstrators and the testing of the Civil Rights Act: Leroy Clark, who had been working in St. Augustine, Charles Jones, who had been working in Selma,…

  • Children of McComb

    A talk with Thomas Hayden and Robert Zellner (field secretaries of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), given under the auspices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to the Durham Youth and College Chapters of the NAACP in Durham, North Carolina. The talk was delivered on October 27, 1961. They discuss their experiences at the student…