Author: Anthony Siracusa

Anthony Siracusa is the Director of Community Engagement at the University of Mississippi. He focuses on the intersection between religion, politics and race in modern US History, centering on the development of nonviolence as a political philosophy in the decades before the peak years of the Civil Rights Movement. Anthony’s research also focuses more broadly on interracialism and interracial organizing across the 20th century. He also works at the intersection of the academy and the community through programs designed for faculty, staff, students, and off campus partners to advance research, learning, and community impact.

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Multiracial Anti-Lynching Activists Formed the NAACP in 1909, But It Wasn’t Black-Led Until 1920

An interracial group of women and men founded the group that would soon become known as the NAACP in 1909. A coalition of white journalists, lawyers and progressive reformers led the effort. It would take another 11 years until, in 1920, James Weldon Johnson became the first Black person to formally serve as its top official.

November 24, 2020

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