NAACP
Please join me this coming Monday, September 21st at St. Paul AME Church on Merritt Mill Road to find out more about the candidates for Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP will be asking us our opinions on the achievement gap, budgets, retention rates and accountability. Audience questions will also be taken.
I look forward to the opportunity to address these issues, and I’d like to talk about creative ways to raise the quality of education during a time of budget cuts. I hope to see you there!
Via e-mail from Mae McClendon:
Mark your calendars.
ANNUAL CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO BRANCH OF THE NAACP's
ANNUAL FREEDOM BANQUET
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009
7:00PM
CARRBORO CENTURY CENTER
TICKET PRICE $35 PER PERSON
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
REV. BRIAN WRIGHT
TERRELL'S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
PRESIDENT OF THE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE
MC - BUSTER BROWN, RADIO PERSONALITY
ENTERTAINMENT: KINGS OF HARMONY
SEMI FORMAL - DRESS TO IMPRESS
MORE DETAILS TO COME
Date:
Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location:
Century Hall, Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St.
![[1947 freedom riders]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2109425578_ca8246e7a6_m.jpg)
Did
you know that the first civil rights "freedom ride" took place in 1947,
fourteen years before the 1961 riders captured the nation's attention
by exposing the brutality of Jim Crow in the South? The Journey of Reconciliation
was organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which was born
at the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), and was led by FOR staff members Bayard Rustin and George
Houser.
The interracial group of nine men on the Journey of Reconciliation
set out from Washington, D.C. on April 9th, 1947. They met some
resistance from passengers and drivers on buses in Virginia and North
Carolina. But when they attempted to sit at the front of a bus in
Chapel Hill on April 12th, the driver refused, and removed some of the
riders by force. They were then attacked by angry cab drivers at the
Chapel Hill bus station, and arrested by local police. Their subsequent
time serving on a chain gang led Rustin to write about the experience.
His serialized journal led to major reforms in the North Carolina
prison system.
As printed in the Chapel Hill Herald on Saturday, April 14th:
My very first column last spring dealt with my concern about the lack of young black leadership in our community.
I'm still concerned but the good news is that help is on the way. Local NAACP leader Jesse Gibson has brought forward a great plan for a Youth Council that will help to engage teenagers of all races in serving their community. He and the rest of the organization's leadership have successfully seen the creation of such an organization through Chapel Hill's lengthy approval process, and it's now official.
Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP President Fred Battle, who has been a fierce advocate for young people as a long time activist and former school board member, says that frequently the reason they are reluctant to get involved in the community is that they don't feel adequate to the task. He sees a primary function of the Youth Council as helping these folks to build leadership and become confident in their abilities to help guide the community.
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