Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon
Published to University Press of Mississippi: March 2014
DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781604731071.001.0001
Mary McLeod Bethune
Sarah Patton Boyle
Mamie Till Bradley
Daisy S. Lampkin
Agnes E. Meyer
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Frances H. Williams
Edith S. Sampson
Johnnie Carr
Dorothy Tilly
Della D. Sullins
Barbara Posey
Priscilla Stephens
Casey Hayden
Modjeska M. Simkins
Diane Nash
Lillian Smith
Katie Louchheim
Anne Braden
Marion King
Margaret C. McCulloch
Jane Schutt
Dorothy Height
Marie Foster
Pauli Murray
Myrlie Evers
Ella Baker
Victoria Gray
Rita L. Schwerner
Ruth Steiner
Fannie Lou Hamer
Annie Devine
Dorothy Cotton
Martha Ragland
November 9, 1955 National Council of Negro Women, Washington, D.C.
(p.33) Daisy S. Lampkin
Davis W. Houck
David E. Dixon
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781604731071.003.0004
Born on August 9, 1883, in Washington D.C., Daisy Adams Lampkin was a lifelong activist, organizer, and fundraiser. Dubbed "Mrs. NAACP," Lampkin began her career in social justice as a suffragist, joining the Negro Women's Equal Franchise Federation, later renamed the Lucy Stone League. She was also a charter member of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and a board member of the National Association of Colored Women. In 1935, she was appointed a national field secretary of the NAACP and joined its Board of Directors in 1947. On November 9, 1955, Lampkin delivered a speech at the annual convention of the NCNW in Washington D.C. This chapter reproduces Lampkin's speech, in which she eulogized Mary McLeod Bethune, who founded the NCNW in 1935. Lampkin used the eulogy as a celebration of black women and their achievements.
Keywords: speech, Daisy Adams Lampkin, social justice, National Council of Negro Women, NAACP, Mary McLeod Bethune, eulogy, black women, Washington D.C.
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