I've always wondered why the NAACP has chosen to cover up certain things in Civil Rights history. I've had my guesses, but some of the things they've failed to recognize, and some of the people they've ignored, doesn't make much sense to me.
For instance, did you all know that:
wrote ... Mrs. Parks was not the first to be arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white person. Earlier that year, Claudette Colvin, 15, refused to give up her seat and was arrested and in October, Mary Louise Smith was arrested. Black activists and the NAACP met with both of these people, but decided they needed someone able to withstand the scrutiny of the media, someone upstanding and a solid member of the community.
Or the fact that they fail to recognize Harry T. Moore as part of the Civil Rights Movement and neglected to recognize him at the memorial built in Alabama when he was the one that started the whole thing.
He, however, was murdered by the K.K.K. before he actually got anything accomplished. Yet they fail to even mention his name on thier website, when he died as the leader of the NAACP..
What kind of sense does that make?
wrote ... Evangeline Moore, Daughter "This is a man who devoted his entire life, I mean his whole life, even our family life hinged around his activities with the NAACP and The Progressive Voter's League...they all talk about Dr. King, that's great, but Daddy did the same thing. In fact, he started it, the movement. In fact, he had no lieutenants or bodyguards, or no one to fly him to this place or the other. He had absolutely nobody but us, and yet he accomplished all of those things- the voting, the teacher salaries, all of the lynchings that he investigated. That's very important, a very important part of history."
