African Descent Archives - Page 29 of 78

Kathryn Magnolia Johnson

NAACP field organizer from 1921 to 1924, YMCA worker and writer

Margaret Bush Wilson

In 1958 she became president of the NAACP St. Louis Branch, and in 1962 headed the State Conference. Elected to the NAACP Board in 1963, she became the first black woman to chair it in 1975.

Roslyn M Brock

NAACP Board of Directors

Statia Hopefield

1700s enslaved woman in Canada who fought for her and her family’s freedom

US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.

Mildred Bond Roxborough

Mildred Bond Roxborough was a longtime secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and traveled throughout the South regularly to help with organizing.