Bx Branch NAACP Annual Freedom Fund Dinner Dance & Honorees

Please Join

THE BRONX BRANCH NAACP

as we present our

ANNUAL FREEDOM FUND DINNER DANCE

“Our Lives Matter, Our Votes Count”

Honoring Community Leaders

2017 HONOREES:

Rella Fogliano * Bronx NABVETS Chapter #0029

Ted Jefferson * Dr. Varleton McDonald *

We McDonald* I’m My Sistah’s Keeper

* Alice Witt Smith* Ruby Williamson

Friday, April 28, 2017

 (7:00 PM - 1:00 AM)

At

The EASTWOOD MANOR CATERING HALL

3371 Eastchester Road/Bronx,  NY 10469

                Adult Tickets: $85.00 per person                                   Children $65.00

(Children 12 years & under) (NAACP Membership Included) 

For Further Information and/or Tickets

Gwendolyn Primus (718) 300-3905

    Freedom Fund Chairperson

Alice Johnson 609-923-6811

Freedom Fund Ticket Chairperson

Biarni Burke/Bronx Branch President

Origin of the Freedom Fund Banquet

“The NAACP Freedom Fund began in 1953 (on a national level) as a ten-year program to intensify efforts to complete the job of emancipation. Near the culmination of this effort, Medgar W. Evers, a heroic NAACPMississippi Field Secretary, was killed by an assassin’s bullet. This prompted the NAACP Chairman Bishop Stephen Spottswood to pay tribute to this gallant warrior at the NAACP Convention in Chicago, Illinois in July 1963. He did so by proclaiming that the NAACP Fighting Fund for Freedom will continue until the job of emancipating our people is complete.”