On October 23, 1947, the NAACP sent to the UN a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” in which the NAACP asked the UN to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens. W.E.B. Du Bois, who drafted the NAACP petition with the assistance of Earl B. Dickerson (J.D. ’20), William Robert Ming, Jr.(J.D. ’33), and other leading lawyers and scholars, intended to focus attention … Continue reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s Historic U.N. Petition Continues to Inspire Human Rights Advocacy