NAACP Youth Council

The NAACP Youth Council is a branch of the NAACP in which youth are actively involved. In past years, council participants organized under the council's name to make major strides in the Civil Rights Movement. Started in 1935 by Juanita E. Jackson, special assistant to Walter White and the first NAACP Youth secretary,[1] the NAACP National Board of Directors formally created the Youth and College Division in March 1936.[2]

  1. ^ Bynum, Tommy L. (2007). "Our Fight is for Right": The NAACP Youth Councils and College Chapters' Crusade for Civil Rights, 1936-1965. Georgia State University Press. ISBN 0549380450.
  2. ^ "History of the NAACP Youth and College Division". Baltimore, MD: NAACP. Retrieved 2 April 2013.