Father Quote by Boots Riley

I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration…

— Ella Baker

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the…

— Lucy McBath

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the…

— Michael Bloomberg

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded…

— Tayari Jones

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three…

— Ira Sachs

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

— Kamala Harris

I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many…

— Ella Baker

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as…

— Janis Ian

At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest.…

— Yolanda King