Contributed by SC State Museum

(Front l–r) Ernest Finney, Elliott Turnage, William Bennett, and Willie T. Smith, (back l–r) Matthew J. Perry Jr., Vernoid Bunche, Squire Morgan, Lincoln C. Jenkins and Harold Boulware at the state conference of the NAACP in the early 1950s.

Civil rights leaders will gather at the SC State Museum May 1 at 3 pm to discuss the the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The program “The NAACP Then and Now” will include people involved in the civil rights movement, both past and present, as well as those who have studied the changes that have occurred as a result of the work of the NAACP.