As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of legal strategy that ended the era of official racial segregation
On February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, a group that included African American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett announced the formation of a new organization Called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. it would have a profound effect on the struggle for civil rights and the course of 20th Century American history. The conference that led to the NAACP’s founding had been called in response to a race riot in Illinois.
A silent march in New York to protest the police treatment of blacks during riots in East St. Louis in 1917. They marched down Fifth Avenue on that summer Saturday without saying a word.
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer and politician. He served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the government, and modernized the economy.
On May 18, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.
On this day in 1999, the U.S. Senate voted on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office following an impeachment trial which lasted five-weeks. Clinton was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. On the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty”and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. .
After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.
President Clinton heads back to the Oval Office after making his statement to the press.
