A century ago, James Weldon Johnson became the first Black person to head the NAACP
- Written by Anthony Siracusa, Director of Community Engagement, University of Mississippi

In this moment of national racial reckoning, many Americans are taking time to learn about chapters in U.S. history left out of their school texbooks. The early years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights group that initially coalesced...
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