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
(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.”
