Who spoke with the NAACP organization as they celebrated 100 years of fighting racism?”
A friend of mine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has just celebrated her 100th birthday. She is Edith Blair Staton and she was born in Washington DC’s Blair House, the last baby born there when it was still the Blair family home. Now it is America’s official state guest house. Edith’s grandfather, Montgomery Blair, was in Lincoln’s cabinet and was involved in the Dred Scott case before the Supreme Court. Blair lost the case for Scott’s freedom but Edith is proud that he based his argument on the point that slaves were human beings not property. Edith’s husband, Adolphus, became an admiral. His father had run away from home, a southern plantation, at the age of 15 to join the Confederate Army. Improving race relations has for years been a concern of Edith. When she was 97 she told her episcopal minister that she did not feel she was doing enough as a Christian. So she was named as a consultant to a new church committee for curing racial bias. The Cambridge Chronicle headlined an article ab
Obama helps NAACP mark 100 years of fighting racism “There may be a temptation among some to think that discrimination is no longer a problem in 2009,” President Obama said in his speech for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. “But make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America.” He notes that the members’ forerunners made it possible for him to become the first black president, but warns that discrimination continues. By Christi Parsons July 17, 2009 Reporting from Washington — In his first address to civil rights leaders since his election, President Obama on Thursday marked the centennial of the NAACP by paying tribute to its history and calling on activists to tackle modern-day problems. Obama told the organization’s members that only because of their forerunners could he stand before them as both an African American and president of the United States. “I understand there may be a temptation among some to think that discrimination is no
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