NAACP General Body Meeting
Meetings are held to discuss various events and activities NAACP will be involved with. All are welcomed.
Sponsoring Organization: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date: Monday, August 31, 2009
Time: 8 pm
Location: Moulton Lounge
This month in history...
August 1, 1944:
Anne Frank penned her last entry into her diary. "[I] keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world." Three days later, Anne and her family were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Anne died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at age 15.
August 6, 1965:
The
Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Act suspended literacy, knowledge and character tests designed to keep African Americans from voting in the South. It also authorized the appointment of federal voting examiners and barred discriminatory poll taxes. The Act was renewed by Congress in 1975, 1984 and 1991.
August 13, 1818:
Women's rights pioneer
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was born near West Brookfield, Mass. She dedicated her life to the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women and aided in the founding of the American Suffrage Association.
August 18, 1920:
The
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.
August 28, 1963:
The
March on Washington occurred as over 250,000 persons attended a Civil Rights rally in Washington DC at which Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his now-famous
I Have a Dream speech.
August 28, 2008:
Illinois Senator
Barack Obama became the first African American to be nominated for President by a major political party.
