Reno-Sparks NAACP 63rd Annual Freedom Fund Banquet
Atlantis Casino-Resort-Spa Convention Center, Reno
Saturday, June 7, 2008
6:00 p.m.

NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch 1112 Youth Council members Lauren and Jasmine at the 2007 Freedom Fund Banquet.

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Reno-Sparks NAACP asks Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County to fully honor Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday

Reno-Sparks NAACP Branch 1112 and Community Partners celebrate NATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH WEEK
Starting with “Beauty and Health” Informational Health Fair May 10

NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112 clarifies its mission in light of phone calls generated by Obama/Wright controversy
5-6-2008

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Thanks to everyone who made the 2008 Ebony Fashion Fair Glam Odyssey a huge success

Crusaders reunite
African-American civil rights leader Eddie Scott of Reno was honored Tuesday, May 6, by the Mature Adult Ministry group at Second Baptist Church. Friends and former employees praised Scott, who was the president of the local NAACP branch during the early 1960s.
Reno Gazette-Journal 5-7-2008

NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112 clarifies its mission in light of phone calls generated by Obama/Wright controversy
5-6-2008

Observing the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s Assassination
Remembering his life, death and unfinished business such as The Poor Peoples Campaign and Resurrection City and asking, in the words of his last book, "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: CHAOS OR COMMUNITY? WILDERNESS OR PROMISED LAND?"
Three days of community, conversation, reflection and action, April 4-6, 2008
First United Methodist Church on the river in downtown Reno

NAACP-backed lawsuit heads in federal court March 14
Hearing in Alexander v. Washoe County School District regarding the denial of due process to Ashley and Everette Ball when they were expelled from Reno's Hug High School. Open to the public.
Daily Sparks Tribune 3-9-2008

Community groups and members asked to write congressional delegation about $262 million Medicaid budget cuts
Daily Sparks Tribune 3-9-2008

Already in your community and coming soon to a TV set near you Unnatural Causes, a four-part miniseries: Is inequality making us sick?

Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher calculated that in 2002 almost 85.000 African-Americans died who would not have died if black-white differences in health did not exist. That's the equivalent of one Boeing 737 being shot out of the sky and killing everyone aboard every day, 365 days a year. And they are all black. Unnatural Causes for the first time on television sounds the alarm about our huge and alarming socio-economic and racial disparities in health — and searches for their causes, which are not what we might expect.

34-cent overdraft turns into $600 in fees
Reno-Sparks Branch member victimized by bank service charges
Fees paid disproportionately by low- and moderate-income people
Daily Sparks Tribune 12-15-2007

Meetings
General membership: First Thursday of each month
335 E. Sixth Street in Reno, 6:00 p.m.

Complaint Intake Forms

Annual Freedom Fund Banquet

Useful Links
NAACP.org

Other Nevada Branches

Nevada Humanities Civil Rights Gallery

History of Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
University of Nevada Special Collections

The Nevada Black History Project

Nevada NAACP in the Civil Rights Era
University of California Oral History Project
1961 Interview with Tarea Pittman
NAACP West Coast Regional Director

Lubertha Miller Johnson (1906-1989): NAACP branch president,
Nevada civil rights and womens' rights pioneer

Crusaders reunite
Reno Gazette-Journal 5-7-2008

Jena 6 local and national support info

Reno-Sparks NAACP 2007 Archive