Posted on 01/29/2007 10:05:26 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
T V Mangum was the first president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP.
A Google search on TV Mangum will bring up alot of articles.:
| In September, 1946, the NAACP announced that it intended to take legal action against bus ... "Rustin to C. J. Gates, June 5, 1947; T. V. Mangum to Rustin, ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8906(196933)30%3A3%3C213%3ATFFR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H - |
| P55/146, C. O. Pearson (center), T. V. Mangum (right), and Kelly Alexander (left) (n.d.). P55/147, N.C. NAACP meeting with Jackie Robinson sitting next to ... dlib.uncc.edu/special_collections/manuscripts/html/55.php - 188k - |
| File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML This series of Papers of the NAACP documents the activities of branch ... Principal Correspondents: Lucille Black; T. V. Mangum; J. M. Stockton; ... www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/Aaas/naacp2701.pdf - |
| "Our problem," Houser wrote to the North Carolina NAACP in an urgent ... George Houser to T. V. Mangum, North Carolina NAACP, June 7, 1947, CORE, reel 44. ... muse.jhu.edu/journals/radical_history_review/v088/88.1mollin.html - |
| The North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches formed in Charlotte in 1943, largely as a result of efforts by Ella Baker, Kelly Alexander, and T. V. Mangum ... ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/civilrights1/Session2_1.html - 87k - |
John Mangum was born in 1870. He married twice and raised 2 families.
His first wife was Maria Lewis. Among their children was Travis Mangum who was born about 1899. Travis married EuVa Lee Green. Eventually, they settled in Statesville and had 2 children
Gwendolyn Katrina and Charles Luther Mangum
Travis Mangum, from Granville County is Travis Van Mangum. He is none other than T V Mangum, charter member and first president of the NC Chapter of the NAACP.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:wLUWkpxlhQMJ:www.genealogybuff.com/va/va-lynchburg-obits2.htm+%22charles+m+l+mangum%22+lynchburg&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a
Gwendolyn Mangum Johnson
Gwendolyn Mangum Johnson, 63, of Philadelphia, Pa., entered eternal rest on Oct. 29, 1999. She was the daughter of the late T.V. Mangum and Euver L. Mangum of Statesville, N.C. A graduate of North Carolina Central College (now University), where she was soloist with the college choir from her freshman year. She received a teaching certificate from Livingston College in Salisbury, N.C. and taught at Morningside High School for several years before moving to New York City where she ventured into social work, and worked also in Philadelphia before retiring. Cherishing her memories are her husband, George C. Johnson; her son, Audwin L. Thomas and his wife, Sandra R. Thomas; three granddaughters, Farrol S. Thomas, Gwendolyn F. Thomas and Audwina L. Thomas; her brother, Charles M.L. Mangum, publisher of the Piedmont Area Journal newspaper, Lynchburg. Services are scheduled for Friday evening at 6 p.m. at Mt. Olive Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, 2039 W. Toronto, Philadelphia, Pa. Professional services are entrusted to the Wescott Funeral Home, 101-03 W. Hunting Park Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Courtesy of Franklin Funeral Home, 845-7101.
--------------------------- VIRGINIA NAACP NAMES PRESIDENT
Richmond Times-Dispatch
October 20, 1986
Author: News Leader staff writer
Estimated printed pages: 2
Charles M.L. Mangum, a Lynchburg lawyer, is the new president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP.
Mangum, 52, was elected at the 51st annual convention of the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this weekend. He succeeds James E. Ghee, a Farmville lawyer.
Mangum said he plans to "take the ball and run with it by improving on the concepts in which the NAACP was founded."
Enhancing black businesses, the preservation of black colleges and helping the poor and infirm will continue to be priorities of the state NAACP, Mangum said.
He also envisions a closer working relationship among the NAACP, black churches and black fraternal groups.
Mangum said he has been a member of the NAACP all his life. A native of Statesville, N.C., his father, Travis Van Mangum, formed the Statesville branch of the organization in 1927, 17 years after the national organization was founded.
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I am looking for it, have not yet found it, but I would be willing to bet anthing there is a close blood relationship between TV Mangum and Travis Mangum from Durham
Hat tip Maggief!Tony Soprano at LS
NAACP rivalry???
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State's NAACP at fork A family dynasty faces a challenge
The News & Observer
May 25, 1996
Author: Ben Stocking; Staff Writer
Estimated printed pages: 4
For nearly half a century, the Alexander name has been virtually synonymous with the NAACP in North Carolina.
Kelly Alexander Sr. helped found the state organization and served as its president for 36 years. At the time of his death in 1984, he was serving as the NAACP's national board chairman. Kelly Alexander Jr. grew up in the organization and has been the state conference president since his father died 12 years ago.
Now, for the first time since 1948, someone with a different name is heading the state organization - at least temporarily. The NAACP'S national board suspended Alexander last weekend pending an audit of the state conference's finances.
His suspension marks a dramatic moment in the 53-year history of the state chapter. And the timing couldn't be more awkward.
It comes as the state conference is preparing to host the NAACP's national convention, which opens July 6 in Charlotte. It also comes as the national organization is trying to regain stability after the firing of its last leader, North Carolina native Ben Chavis, and a bruising election that led to the ouster of national board chairman William Gibson.
The prospect of another round of conflict discourages local chapter heads.
"I'm saddened that here we are getting ready to go into the national convention and this is another sour note about the NAACP," says James White, president of the South-Central Wake branch. "But I've always said the organization is better than any one person. And I've always said that we will survive."
It is unclear whether Alexander's suspension will prove to be a short-term setback or the end of a family dynasty. Officials at the national office declined to discuss Alexander's suspension, other than to say that they are investigating a complaint brought against him by other members of the state conference. They won't say who brought the complaint or when the audit is likely to be completed.
In the meantime, Melvin "Skip" Alston, a Greensboro real estate broker and first vice president of the state conference, is filling in as acting president.
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Politics or arrogance?
Alexander insists that he has fallen victim to the byzantine internal politics of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. His rivals at the state and national level have come together to do him in, he says.
"What you've got is a collection of folks who have axes to grind," Alexander says. "It's politics at its worst. It's really an attempt to lessen my voice as the national convention comes to town, to make me less of a thorn in the side of the powers that be."
Alexander contends that his opponents have seized on a technicality in an effort to undermine him. The pretext for his suspension, he says, was the fact that he used pre-signed checks - checks signed by the former state treasurer - to pay some bills. He says that he made no questionable expenditures and that he told the newly elected treasurer, Z. Ann Hoyle, that he was using the checks. She didn't object, he said.
Alexander blames several state and national NAACP members for his travails, including Hoyle and Skip Alston, the acting president. None would reply to Alexander's charges.
Alston, the only one who would comment at all, expressed admiration for Alexander.
"I've learned a lot from Kelly," he said. "He's dedicated to the NAACP and its principles. He has basically committed his life to this organization. I think he will always play a role in the NAACP one way or another."
But some state conference members say that Alexander shares an unappealing trait with Chavis and Gibson: arrogance.
"Sometimes his tactics are a little high-handed," said White, the South-Central Wake branch president. "Sometimes he seemingly is not in tune with the will of the people."
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Alston/Mangum???
Obituaries
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
April 29, 1997
EXCERPT
MANGUM
Mrs. Nancy Mae Bobbitt Mangum, 86, of 19 Dauphine Place, died Friday, April 25, 1997 at 4:30 a.m. at Duke Hospital. She was born and raised in Granville County.
She is survived by five sons, Willie Alston Jr., James Alston, Travis Mangum, Edward Mangum, William Mangum; and two daughters, Mrs. Gennie V. Pettiford, and Mrs. Glendora Harris Mangum, all of Durham, NC.; one brother, Paul Lyons; six sisters, Pearle Mae Lyons, Roberta Bobbitt and Dorothy Lee Percy, of Durham, NC., Eva Mae Lyons of Long Island, NY., Pourthy Lee Bass, and Marie Pattieway of Creedmoor, NC.; two sons-in-law, Mr. Phil Harris and Mr. Wallace Pettiford, both of Durham, NC.; five daughters-in-law, Mrs. Della Alston, Mrs. Mary Cheek Mangum, and Mrs. Betty Mangum, all of Durham; and S.F.C. Veronica Jean Mangum, of New Jersey, twenty-eight grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday at 12 noon at Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Michael Page will be officiating.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. at Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home, and at other times at 19 Dauphine Place. Burial will at Markham Memorials Garden.
http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/
http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/
Freepers onto something?
Posted at 4:57 PM by Jon Ham
http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjcolumnist...hor.html?id=191
Jon Ham joined the John Locke Foundation on Feb. 21, 2005. Prior to joining JLF he had worked for The Herald-Sun newspapers in Durham, NC, for 19 years, 13 of those as managing editor and four as director of digital publishing.
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Isn't that name Mangum the last name of the Duke lacrosse stripper?
FYI -
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:9D-xmG-4Pd4J:ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/civilrights1/Session2_1.html+%22t+v+mangum%22+naacp&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6&client=firefox-a
Growth of the NAACP
Black North Carolinians joined the NAACP in ever-increasing numbers before and during the Second World War. Led by idealistic lawyers, the NAACP fought in the federal courts for racial justice. Before the war it spearheaded the effort to keep conservative North Carolina jurist John J. Parker off the United States Supreme Court.
Membership in the NAACP soared in the war years, and the number of branches in the state more than doubled. By the war’s end, Winston-Salem had the largest NAACP chapter, with 1,991 members. The North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches formed in Charlotte in 1943, largely as a result of efforts by Ella Baker, Kelly Alexander, and T. V. Mangum. The ongoing conference created a powerful united effort for reform.
Yes and her father is Travis Mangum from Granville County.
He is NOT a son of T V Mangum, nephew, great-nephew maybe?? Still trying to pin that one down.
Geez, this makes a whole 'nother aspect of this Duke scandal. Anyway, I think the TV guy was Tom Selleck, that was Magnum PI, not Mangum. I don't think there is absolutly any relation to a TV private eye.
Keep digging, maggie!
Hurrah, Maggief!
This would certainly explain a lot.
Kudos ! Protect the Bill of Rights & Maggief !
BTTT
There are quite a few vocal accuser supporters
in Granville County. The Rev. Gatewood, 2nd
VP of the NC NAACP is the first to come to mind.
There are hundreds of Mangums spread throughout
the Durham, Person and Granville counties. They
go way back. A very interesting history.
Interesting. Good work!
Thanks for the ping. This web just keeps weaving.
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/index.cfm#813837
Letters to the editor
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
January 28, 2007
Countering conspiracy to disrupt Durham justice
How dare the N.C. Bar Association join the mobs in Durham who have verbally lynched and sought to politically assassinate District Attorney Mike Nifong for seeking to prosecute three white Duke students accused of raping a black NCCU student. And if we are to refer to the lady as a "stripper," allow me to refer to the men as "perverted stripper patrons."
The conspiracy to disrupt justice in this Durham case should be obvious. It is unprecedented that the alleged criminals and their defense team have the luxury of such a media platform to proclaim their "innocence" and attack the prosecutor.
More than 50 percent of the black men packed into the Durham County jail also profess to be innocent. But the media will never allow their cases to be tried in the court of public opinion. Neither will you see any form of outrage when the DA says "they did it." Consequently we find more black men in Central Prison than N.C. Central University.
I challenge the racist media and N.C. Bar Association who wrongfully used their influence to attack the integrity of a prosecutor who is prosecuting a case which has the potential to challenge racism, classism, and sexism simultaneously. Yes, we should demand justice in the courts. We should also remember Malcolm X's point, which says, "If black people can't get justice in the courts, we have to demand justice in the streets."
CURTIS E. GATEWOOD
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http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=gaynorm&date=070128
Duke Case: A Reverend Revving Up Rioters?
WEBCommentary Contributor
Author: Michael J. Gaynor
Date: January 28, 2007
Would you please place me on your Duke LAX ping list? I have been very interested in the matter since its beginning. Thanks.
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Fiery advocate sees bigger dreams ahead
The News & Observer
December 27, 2002
Author: Rah Bickley; Staff Writer
EXCERPT
GATEWOOD CHRONICLES
1993: Curtis Gatewood first gains notoriety at the highly publicized trial of Michael Seagroves, a homeowner who shot a teen who fled after a break-in. When a psychiatrist testified in behalf of Seagroves, Gatewood stood up and shouted, "No, I cannot allow this to happen."
MARCH 1995: Gatewood wins presidency of Durham NAACP.
NOVEMBER 1995: Gatewood urges blacks to boycott Christmas shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving, the kickoff of the shopping season, to avoid overspending.
JULY 1996: In a public letter, Gatewood calls interim school Superintendent Ted Drain a "house negro" and an "Uncle Tom" for replacing the principal at historically black Hillside High School.
NOVEMBER 1996: Durham NAACP and Gatewood win state's NAACP Branch of the Year and Branch President of the Year awards.
FEBRUARY 1997: NAACP writes school board members saying superintendent candidate Ann Denlinger's "record and history are suspect." Denlinger gets the job.
NOVEMBER 1997: Gatewood loses a bid to lead the state NAACP to Skip Alston of Greensboro.
JULY 1998: Gatewood writes Duke University President Nan Keohane, asking her to scrap the school mascot, the Blue Devil, saying, "It's pretty much promoting the devil."
NOVEMBER 1998: Gatewood elected to second term as local NAACP president.
JANUARY 2000: Gatewood and demonstrators bring a school board meeting to a halt by chanting, three weeks after saying the NAACP would not sit by as disproportionate numbers of black males dropped out or were suspended.
SEPTEMBER 2001: Four days after terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Gatewood calls on blacks not to fight in any war of retaliation, citing the NAACP's nonviolence policy and racism in the United States. The NAACP reprimands him and threatens to strip him of his post.
JULY 2002: Five months after the NAACP requests a police investigation into the February Cheek Road Apartments raid, Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson rules the Cheek Road raid unconstitutional.
AUGUST 2002: Gatewood and supporters halt a school board meeting by chanting after the board re-elects Kathryn Meyers as chairwoman. He is escorted out of the meeting and is later convicted of trespassing.
SEPTEMBER 2002: Gatewood issues a statement urging blacks not to fight in a war on Iraq.
NOVEMBER 2002: Gatewood says he will not run again as Durham NAACP president.
Glad to.
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