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About Gilbert Jonas
- Gilbert Maurice Jonas (July 22, 1930 – September 21, 2006), was an American businessman and long-time fundraiser for the NAACP. Born in Brooklyn, Jonas graduated from Stanford University in 1951, and earned a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
- After a stint in the Army's public information office, he served as a public relations adviser to the African independence movement in the late 1950s.
- Later he became acting director of the Far East section of the Peace Corps. From 1962 till the mid-1990s, Jonas ran the Gilbert Jonas Company, a public relations and fund-raising firm based in Manhattan where he lived.
- Active in progressive political causes, Jonas served as the N.A.A.C.P.'s chief fund-raiser from 1965 to 1995, helping to raise $110 million for the organization during that period. In June 1995, Jonas filed suit against the N.A.A.C.P., charging fiscal impropriety and back pay and damages.
- The suit was settled out of court later that summer, with the N.A.A.C.P.
- agreeing to pay Mr.
- Jonas's back pay. In 2005, Jonas published the book Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969, with a foreword by civil-rights leader Julian Bond. He is survived by three daughters, Susan Dale Jonas, Jillian Dana Jonas and Stephanie Drew Jonas Stone.
- His first wife was Barbara Lynn Selby.
- His second wife Paulette Joyce Thiese.
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