Speech to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, Sept. 11, 1983.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Jackson, Jesse, 1941-

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The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Reverend Jackson h...

Woodard, Ulysses.

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Woodard, Bertha 1916-

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Resident of Sparks, Nevada, employed by the Washoe Medical Center, member of the Sparks United Methodist Church, and active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She attended the 1963 "March on Washington" on behalf of civil rights and the 1983 "Peace, jobs, and freedom" rally. In 1981 the University of Nevada, Reno, confired the Distinguished Nevadan award on Woodard. Her husband was Nevada civil rights leader Ulysses (Woody) Woodard. From the de...

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)

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Peace, jobs and freedom rally (1983 : Washington, D.C.)

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