The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American organisation founded in 1909 to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination within the USA.
The NAACP works towards a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination. Though, in 2007, after nearly one hundred years and with racism rife in the USA this objective seems almost a pipedream. Indeed in October 2007 the NAACP declared a State of Emergency in response to the recent surge in assaults against young African Americans as demonstrated by the boot camp beating death of Martin Lee Anderson, noose hangings in Jena, Louisiana and other communities, and the assault by police on Shelwanda Riley a 15-year old girl who was thrown around, punched and pepper sprayed by a Fort Pierce, Floridapolice officer, a man roughly twice her size, as he tried to arrest her for a non-violent curfew violation.
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens
To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States
To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.
Supermarionation was the jocular name given by Gerry Anderson to his new style of puppets developed during the early 1960s which included a solenoid within the head which allowed the puppet's lips to be moved by the puppeteer. The solenoid was powered by electricity, supplied through the puppet strings, and connected to a toggle switch which a puppeteer activated rapidly on and off to effect lip movement. The first use of Supermarionation was in the 1962 television puppet-based series, 'Super Car'. Research Supermarionation
David Livingstone was a Scottish explorer. He was born in 1813 at Blantyre and died in 1873. From the age of ten he worked in a cottonfactory, at the same time teaching himself Latin and studying natural history. In 1836 he attended the medical class at Anderson College, Glasgow, and lectures at Glasgow university, afterwards in 1840 receiving the diploma of the Glasgow Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, and in the same year was ordained as a missionary by the London Missionary Society and set sail for the Cape. Between 1852 and 1873 he discovered the course of the Zambezi, Victoria falls and lake Nyasa. Research David Livingstone
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first British female doctor and the first English female mayor. She was born in 1836 at London and died in 1917. She started to study medicine in 1860 but was unable to gain admittance to any of the British medical schools. In 1865 the Society of Apothecaries gave her the degree of LSA and in 1866 she opened a dispensary in London which developed into the New Hospital for Women in Euston Road, of which she was senior physician for twenty-four years. Graduating as a medical doctor at Paris in 1870, she was for twenty-three years a lecturer and for ten years dean of the London School of Medicine for Women. She was also a member of the first London School Board, and in 1892 obtained what is considered her greatest achievement, the admittance of women to the British Medical Association (BMA). In 1898 she became mayor of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the first woman to hold the post of mayor in England. Research Elizabeth Anderson
Gerry Anderson is a highly innovative creator of children's science fiction adventure television programmes. His creations of Thunderbirds, Joe-90, and Stingray are legendary. More recently he created 'Space Precinct' probably one of the most expensive television serials yet produced costing over one million pounds each episode to produce. Research Gerry Anderson
James Anderson was a Scottish writer on political and rural economy. He was born in 1739 and diedin 1808. In 1790 he started the Bee, which ran to eighteen volumes and contained many useful papers on agricultural, economic and other topics. Research James Anderson
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