• The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) was a society in Mississippi founded by T. R. M. Howard in 1951 to promote a program of civil rights,...
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  • Amzie Moore (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    Howard founded the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) with hopes to be the African American equivalent of the white Delta Council. Wanting to be...
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    Aaron Henry (politician) (category Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives)
    1951, Henry was a founding member of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL). The main leader and head of the organization was T.R.M. Howard...
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  • Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) together with other key blacks in the state. At first the RCNL, which was based in the all-black town of Mound...
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  • Lamar Smith (activist) (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    I veteran, was a voting rights activist and a member of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL). On August 2, he voted in the primary and helped...
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  • George W. Lee (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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  • T. R. M. Howard (category International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor)
    movement of the 1960s. Howard founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the 1950s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership; and played...
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    of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), which began to organize actions to end segregation; Evers helped organize the RCNL's boycott of those...
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    democratic rights [of America's] Negro minority" and providing a short list of concerns they wished to raise with "white Southerners of goodwill". On February...
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  • Mississippi, called by Governor Hugh White, T.R.M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, along with nearly one hundred other black leaders, publicly...
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