Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson is credited for being the principal organizer of the first rural branch of the N.A.A.C.P. He devoted his entire adult life to the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans. Henderson was born on November 24, 1883, to William and Louisa Henderson. His father was a day laborer and his mother, a […]
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