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http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:9D-xmG-4Pd4J:ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/civilrights1/Session2_1.html+%22t+v+mangum%22+naacp&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6&client=firefox-a
Growth of the NAACP
Black North Carolinians joined the NAACP in ever-increasing numbers before and during the Second World War. Led by idealistic lawyers, the NAACP fought in the federal courts for racial justice. Before the war it spearheaded the effort to keep conservative North Carolina jurist John J. Parker off the United States Supreme Court.
Membership in the NAACP soared in the war years, and the number of branches in the state more than doubled. By the war’s end, Winston-Salem had the largest NAACP chapter, with 1,991 members. The North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches formed in Charlotte in 1943, largely as a result of efforts by Ella Baker, Kelly Alexander, and T. V. Mangum. The ongoing conference created a powerful united effort for reform.
Keep digging, maggie!
Duke Case: The Larger Tragedy
By Thomas Sowell
It has now become more and more obvious, even to some people who initially believed the "rape" charges against Duke University students, that there was never a speck of evidence to support the charges and a growing amount of evidence to the contrary.
However reprehensible District Attorney Nifong's words and actions have been throughout this case, it would be a serious mistake to see in this tawdry episode just the vileness of one man.
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The biggest losers from getting sucked into these frauds are blacks, especially young blacks who go off on an emotional tangent that leads nowhere, at a time when there are so many opportunities in other directions, if they will direct their time and efforts in those directions through education and other serious interests.
The current self-destructive misdirection of energies in black ghettoes cannot be explained by a "legacy of slavery" or "racism." For one thing, this level of self-destruction in black communities did not exist half a century ago, when racism was worse and the black population was generations closer to the era of slavery.
Moreover, a virtually identical pattern of self-destructive attitudes and behavior has been found among British lower-class whites, where none of this can be blamed on racism or a legacy of slavery. (See "Life at the Bottom" by Theodore Dalrymple.)
What the two self-destructive communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic have in common is hearing a steady diet of propaganda blaming all their problems on others, and depicting "society" as determined to keep them down, regardless of anything they might do to try to lift themselves up.
That same deadly message has produced the same tragic results among very different people. The Duke "rape" fraud is yet another sign that the time is long overdue for all of us to start thinking.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/01/duke_case_the_larger_tragedy.html