About: Arnold Aronson     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:Whole100003553, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FArnold_Aronson

Arnold Aronson (March 11, 1911 – February 17, 1998) was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980. In 1941 he worked with A. Philip Randolph to pressure President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, opening jobs in the federal bureaucracy and in the defense industries to minorities. A close associate of Randolph and Roy Wilkins, Aronson played an important role planning the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Arnold Aronson (de)
  • Arnold Aronson (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Arnold Aronson (March 11, 1911 – February 17, 1998) was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980. In 1941 he worked with A. Philip Randolph to pressure President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, opening jobs in the federal bureaucracy and in the defense industries to minorities. A close associate of Randolph and Roy Wilkins, Aronson played an important role planning the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. (en)
  • Arnold Aronson (geboren am 11. März 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts; gestorben am 17. Februar 1998 in Montgomery County, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Aktivist und Bürgerrechtler sowie Mitbegründer der Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR). Er ist Träger des Presidential Medal of Freedom, der höchsten zivilen Auszeichnung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 1998 verlieh US-Präsident Bill Clinton ihm die Presidential Medal of Freedom für seine Bemühungen, Gleichberechtigung für alle in Amerika zu erreichen und nannte ihn einen stillen Helden der Bürgerrechtsbewegung. (de)
dct:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Arnold Aronson (geboren am 11. März 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts; gestorben am 17. Februar 1998 in Montgomery County, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Aktivist und Bürgerrechtler sowie Mitbegründer der Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR). Er ist Träger des Presidential Medal of Freedom, der höchsten zivilen Auszeichnung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Aronson setzte sich ab 1941 mit Asa Philip Randolph gegen Rassendiskriminierung im Berufsleben ein und erwirkte den am 25. Juni 1941 von US-Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt erlassenen Executive Order 8802. Von 1945 bis 1976 war er Direktor des (heute: Jewish Council for Public Affairs). Als Sekretär der LCCR koordinierte er Kampagnen, die den Erlass vom Civil Rights Act von 1957, Civil Rights Act von 1964, Voting Rights Act von 1965 und Civil Rights Act von 1968 vorantrieben. Er war 1963 neben Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, John Lewis und einer der Mitorganisatoren des Marschs auf Washington für Arbeit und Freiheit. 1998 verlieh US-Präsident Bill Clinton ihm die Presidential Medal of Freedom für seine Bemühungen, Gleichberechtigung für alle in Amerika zu erreichen und nannte ihn einen stillen Helden der Bürgerrechtsbewegung. (de)
  • Arnold Aronson (March 11, 1911 – February 17, 1998) was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980. In 1941 he worked with A. Philip Randolph to pressure President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, opening jobs in the federal bureaucracy and in the defense industries to minorities. A close associate of Randolph and Roy Wilkins, Aronson played an important role planning the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. (en)
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is relatives of
is relation of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git145 as of Aug 30 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3331 as of Sep 2 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 52 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software