- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- NAACP Charter Application
- Date of Original:
- 1939
- Subject:
- African Americans--Georgia--Columbus
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights--Georgia--Columbus
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Columbus
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Forms
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Columbus
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Columbus
Physicians--Georgia--Columbus
African American physicians--Georgia--Columbus
Civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus
African American civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- application forms
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The NAACP charter application for a Columbus branch was signed in 1939 by Thomas Brewer, a local physician and political activist.
Image of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) charter application for a Columbus, Georgia branch. This document was signed in 1939 by Thomas Brewer, a local physician and political activist.
Brewer, a physician, spearheaded the drive for racial equality in Columbus from the 1920s until his assassination on February 18, 1956, which was widely believed to have resulted from his political activism. Brewer, whose death had considerable impact on local race relations, is recognized as a martyr of the national civil rights movement. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/thomas-brewer-1894-1956/m-10539/
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Columbus State University Archives
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/thomas-brewer-1894-1956
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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