page_title: Derrick Johnson (activist)
section_title: NAACP
hierarchical_section_title: Derrick Johnson (activist) / NAACP
caption_attribution_description: English: President John F. Kennedy meets with representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (L – R) Dr. E. Franklin Jackson, President of Washington, D.C. NAACP branch; Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, Chairman of NAACP Board of Directors; President Kennedy; Arthur B. Spingarn, former NAACP Vice-President. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (JFKWHP-KN-18351) -- from the White House Photographs collection at the JFK Library. original image at the library website
context_page_description: Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer and humanitarian. He serves as the 19th President and CEO of the NAACP. He had previously served as president of its Mississippi state chapter, and vice chairman of its board of directors. Johnson is the founder of the Mississippi nonprofit group One Voice Inc., which aims to improve quality of life for African Americans through public engagement.
context_section_description: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington,  Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
  At the NAACP, Derrick Johnson works closely with the national staff, including Tiffany Dena Loftin, the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division for the Association.
caption: NAACP representatives E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen Gill Spottswood meeting with President Kennedy at the White House in 1961
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