• The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) was a society in Mississippi founded by T. R. M. Howard in 1951 to promote a program of civil rights,...
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  • Amzie Moore (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    Howard founded the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) with hopes to be the African American equivalent of the white Delta Council. Wanting to be...
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    Aaron Henry (politician) (category Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives)
    1951, Henry was a founding member of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL). The main leader and head of the organization was T.R.M. Howard...
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  • Lamar Smith (activist) (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    I veteran, was a voting rights activist and a member of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL). On August 2, he voted in the primary and helped...
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    democratic rights [of America's] Negro minority" and providing a short list of concerns they wished to raise with "white Southerners of goodwill". On February...
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    Student Movement (Nashville, Tennessee) Regional Council of Negro Leadership (Mississippi) Women's Political Council (Montgomery, Alabama) Ralph Abernathy...
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  • Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) together with other key blacks in the state. At first the RCNL, which was based in the all-black town of Mound...
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  • T. R. M. Howard (category International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor)
    movement of the 1960s. Howard founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the 1950s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership; and played...
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  • Mississippi, called by Governor Hugh White, T.R.M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, along with nearly one hundred other black leaders, publicly...
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  • George W. Lee (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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    restrooms for blacks. The organizer of that campaign, T.R.M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken in Montgomery as King's guest...
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    National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life...
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    of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), which began to organize actions to end segregation; Evers helped organize the RCNL's boycott of those...
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    from Mississippi who headed the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. Howard brought news of the recent acquittal of the two men who had murdered Till...
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    Ruby Bridges (category History of New Orleans)
    November 6, 2018. "Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners". National Council for the Social Studies. Retrieved January 3, 2019. "Ruby Bridges: Honorary...
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    April 20, 2022. "Survey and Recommendations Concerning the Integration of the Negro Soldier into the Army". Harry S. Truman Library. September 22, 1941.[permanent...
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    the 2004 Summer Olympics George W. Lee, vice-president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership Fiddlin' Joe Martin, blues musician Charlie Patton, blues...
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    Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin...
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    people. The organizer of that campaign, T. R. M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken on the lynching of Emmett Till as King's...
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  • Gus Courts (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    1940s. He cooperated with the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and in 1953 co-founded the Humphreys County chapter of the NAACP with Rev. George Lee...
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    Roy Wilkins (category University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    Citizens Councils. Wilkins backed a proposal suggested by T. R. M. Howard of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, who headed the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, a...
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    been targeted by the Truman Doctrine. Evidence of US propaganda can be seen in the booklet The Negro in American Life, which was translated into fifteen...
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    Howard introduced Evers to civil rights activism through the Regional Council of Negro Leadership which organized a boycott against service stations that refused...
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  • muckraker and close friend of Walling. Russell helped plan the NAACP and had served as acting chairman of the National Negro Committee (1909), a forerunner...
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    Charles Evers (category 20th-century mayors of places in Mississippi)
    violence. Along with his brother, Charles became active in the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), a civil rights organization that promoted self-help...
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    Fannie Lou Hamer (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    leaders of the local movement speak at annual Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) conferences, held in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. The attendees of the...
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  • violence. The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), a grassroots civil rights organization founded in 1951 by T. R. M. Howard of the all-black...
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  • 1 – Georgia Board of Education fires all black teachers who are members of the NAACP. August 13 – Regional Council of Negro Leadership registration activist...
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  •  275, 276. ISBN 0-618-08825-3. Reed, Roy (February 27, 1965). "Wounded Negro Dies in Alabama". The New York Times. pp. 1, 10. Eyes on the Prize; America...
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