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.




 




Happy Birthdays!

On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky; on Feb. 12, 1900, Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson, considered the black national anthem, was performed for the first time by a choir composed of schoolchildren at segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, where Johnson was principal; On Feb. 12, 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded. (Courtesy of Nevada reporter Dennis Myers' Poor Denny's Almanac)

In the news

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.


A look behind Reno's white curtain
Reno Gazette-Journal 2-27-2008

Reverend guides youths for next step in black leadership
The Rev. Onie Cooper will be honored in March at Second Baptist Church.
Reno Gazette-Journal 2-10-2008

Dolores Feemster and Janey Anderson work with low-income youth
Reno Gazette-Journal 2-3-2008

Afrocentric documentaries to run in February
Reno Gazette-Journal 2-1-2008

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


 



NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112

P.O. Box 7757
Reno, NV 89510
Phone (775) 322-2992
Fax (775) 322-9909


Lucille Adin, President
Rose Gordon, First VP, Youth Co-chair
Larry Wilson, Second VP, Labor & Industry Chair
Rev. Onie Cooper, Third VP
Janet West, Secretary
Patricia Wilson, Treasurer

Jowel C. Laguerre, Ph.D.
Education Committee Chair
(775) 673-7090

Janet Serial, Health Committee Chair

Andrew Barbano, Political Action Chair

Membership
Annual Dues: $30 for individuals
Please make checks payable to:
NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch.
Please send to the above address.

Please click here or call for additional information.
Youth membership and corporate sponsorships
are also available.

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

 


Watch NAACP Today
Every Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Charter cable channel 16 Reno-Sparks-Washoe
Check local listings for Carson City Charter cable

Volunteer to work on the program and learn the craft of television production. Contact communications committee chair Ken Dalton,
(775) 741-5103.

OUR STORY: History Channel grant used to produce programs about northern Nevada African-Americans
Reno Gazette-Journal 2-8-2008

Copies of the students’ productions will be distributed to Washoe County school libraries and the Library District. The general public will be able to purchase copies through SNCAT (775.828.1211) at the end of March.

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


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