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When the Youth Rise: How the NAACP's Youth & College Division Transformed Activism

By Jamar A. Boyd II
Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter: Tallahassee, Florida Date: March 13, 1960
Aug 6, 2019
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During the 110th National Convention of the NAACP in Detroit, Mich., thousands of delegates from the Youth & College Division attended. Convention enables moments of intentional innovation, erects bridges of generational understanding, forges highways of collaboration, paves paths of opportunity, and preserves the legacy of the ancestors.

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Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter: Tallahassee, Florida Date: March 13, 1960