NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
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Save the date! 71st Annual Reno-Sparks NAACP Freedom Fund Awards Banquet Our Lives Matter, Our Votes Count Circus Circus-Reno Mandalay Ballroom, Saturday 8 Oct. 2016 Doors open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30, program at 7:00 p.m. Reserve your sponsorship, program ad and/or tickets now. Click here for complete information. No increase in prices from 2015.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Most law enforcement officials at NAACP Tri-State Conference oppose gun show purchase background checks
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-20-2016 Sparks Tribune

ON THIS DAY — On Sept. 15, 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era. — New York Times

"You can say there's no such thing as slavery, we're all citizens. But if we're all citizens, then we have a task to do to make sure that that, too, is not a joke. If some citizens live in houses and others live on the street, the Civil War is still going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably, it can still be lost."

— Dr. Barbara Fields featured on The Civil War miniseries, PBS 1990

• Cynthia Hurd, 54 • Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41 • Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton,  45 • Tywanza Sanders, 26 • Ethel Lance, 70 • Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor, 49 • Susie Jackson, 87 • Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr, 74 • Myra Thompson, 59 Chaney 21, Goodman 20, Schwerner 24, Liuzzo 39, Evers 37, King 39, Addie Mae Collins 14, Carol Denise McNair 11, Carole Robertson 14, Cynthia Wesley 14 Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ferguson, Cleveland, New York, Baltimore, Florida... Who's next ___________________? Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, Dallas —>

Justice for Trayvon Martin Demonstration / Reno, NV 20 July 2013

"When will they ever learn?" — Pete Seeger

 

BREAKING NEWS —>

NAACP endorses closing gun show background check loophole Reno, Nev. (8 Sept. 2016) — At its regularly scheduled monthly meeting, the Reno-Sparks NAACP unanimously endorsed passage of statewide Question One on the November ballot. The measure would require background checks on all firearm purchases made at the state's many gun shows. The Branch allowed fair presentation of both sides of the issue. At its overflowing Police and Guns Forum on July 14, Washoe County Sheriff Chuck Allen presented the pro-gun/anti-background check point of view. Most of those voting on Sept. 8 were present in July. The members were informed that the national NAACP platform on criminal justice calls for universal background checks (1, 2), and that the Nevada balloting addresses only a portion of gun sales. Question One is not be confused with Washoe County's Question WC-1 which would raise sales taxes for school construction and maintenance. WC-1 would apply solely to Reno-Sparks-Washoe K-12 schools, where the background checks question applies statewide.    1. Summer 2016 NAACP Action Alert "Continued Ravages of Gun Violence"    2. NAACP National Legislative Priorities for the 114th Congress (2015-16) at page 8.

On Sept. 7, 1972, on the first day of school, Clark County superintendent of schools (and future Republican governor) Kenny Guinn was forced to cancel elementary school “until further notice” after a group of parents won a court order halting implementation of an integration plan. Nevada Attorney General (and future Republican governor) Robert List and school district lawyer Robert Petroni melodramatically flew to Washington to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the integration plan, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund entered the case against List and Petroni, and protest marches were held on the Las Vegas strip, at the county courthouse and in the downtown casino district.

On Sept. 3, 1906, four years before the “great white hope” fight in Reno, African-American Joe Gans triumphed over Oscar “Battling” Nelson in a brutally hot fight (Gans entered the ring carrying an umbrella) in Goldfield.
(Courtesy of veteran Nevadian journalist/historian Dennis Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac © 2016)

HONORING LABOR AT THE 2016 LABOR DAY PARADE
Area workers again march through historic Virginia City to celebrate the value of work on Labor Day
Northern Nevada Central Labor Council: Labor Day stands for much more than selling sofas

START 'EM YOUNG — Reno-Sparks NAACP President and Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO retiree Patricia Gallimore strolls her stroller down the streets of Virginia City with her grandchildren during the historic Nevada town's venerable Labor Day parade. (KTVN TV-2 screen still)

"America fought the Civil War to end forced, unpaid labor and this country still suffers from the bitter after-effects." — Mike Pilcher, President, Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO

Walk a mile in Colin Kaepernick's cleats
"In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." — Toni Morrison
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-30-2016 Sparks Tribune / Updated 8-31-2016

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NEW BRANCH MEETING LOCATION
Second Thursday of each month
Northern Nevada Hopes / Third Floor Community Room
580 W. 5th Street * Reno, NV 89503
Executive Committee 6:30 p.m.
General Membership 7:00 p.m.
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Duncan Library Committee

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ALMANAC: On Aug. 18, 1963, James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

NEW PLACE, SAME HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS Second Thursday of each month Northern Nevada Hopes / Third Floor Community Room 580 W. 5th Street * Reno, NV 89503 Executive Committee 6:30 p.m. General Membership 7:00 p.m. Thursday 11 August 2016 Agendas POLICE & GUNS FORUM FOLLOWUPS Sam Shad's Statewide Nevada Newsmakers Show Thursday 8-4-2016 KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko 12 noon PDT Host: Paul Enos, Executive Director, Nevada Trucking Assn. Guests: Patricia Gallimore, President, Reno-Sparks NAACP; Krys Ro, Reno Black Lives Matter Click here for statewide TV and radio re-run times and dates + view online Reno-Sparks NAACP fails to go for it at forum Reno News & Review Editorial / 7-21-2016 Avoiding tough debate is no way to deal with police killings By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-21-2016 Reno Black Lives Matter March By Brad Bynum / Reno News & Review 7-21-2016 "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." — Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Sheriff Chucky: More guns to shoot cops, alleluia! Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-19-2016 Sparks Tribune Psychographic testing biases police application exams By Patricia Gallimore and Andrew Barbano / RGJ.com 7-14-2016 / Reno Gazette-Journal 7-17-2016 POLICE & GUNS FORUM 7-14-16 UPDATE: The July 14 NAACP forum was attended by a record SRO crowd of between 150 and 200. (It merited a generous half-inch of space in the next day's Reno paper.) Not to worry. Watch Tuesday's Sparks Tribune for a serious dose of reality. I brought copies of the 7-12 Trib column "Better late than never" to the event. I didn't have nearly enough. — AB MEETING AGENDA 1. Suspension of regular order of business for a community forum concerning unsettling recent events in America. Community members will have an opportunity to address local law enforcement, elected officials and community leaders. Suggestions, solutions and comments welcome. 2. PLEASE NOTE: The location of our monthly meetings has permanently changed to Northern Nevada HOPES, 580 W. 5 th Street, Reno, NV 89503. Dear Members and Friends: We will suspend the regular order of business during our usual first Thursday meeting to host a community forum to allow local people to offer solutions to events that have happened over the past week. Depending on attendance, we'll allow people a minute or two to voice concerns. WHERE: Our new permanent branch meeting place, Northern Nevada HOPES, 580 W. 5th Street, 3rd floor, Reno NV 89503 WHEN: 7:00 p.m. PDT, Thursday July 14, 2016 Watch this site and Thursday's Reno Gazette-Journal and spread the word. Thank you. Patricia Y. Gallimore, President NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112 (775) 846-2952

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Top 10 cures for what ails us: Better late than never
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-12-2016 Sparks Tribune

Report: Rise in poverty threatens to further weaken Nevada education system
Ian Whitaker / Las Vegas Sun 7-7-2016

When public interest is secondary to public relations
Managing the spin of the war on drugs
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-5-2016 Sparks Tribune

Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016

Sahara Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada (21 November 1972) — In what would be his only northern Nevada match, Muhammad Ali squares off against world Light-Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster for the North American Boxing Federation heavyweight title. The referee is future Washoe County DA and District Judge Mills Bee Lane in his first championship fight. Former Golden-Glover Lane (20-1) achieved his own world fame, officiating at dozens more championship bouts. He starred in his own nationally-syndicated television show, Judge Mills Lane, for three years. Ali knocked out Foster in the eighth round but not before Foster became the first opponent to open a cut on the prettiest one's face. For many years thereafter, Lane gave away copies of the above photo taken by then-TV reporter, now longtime Reno-Sparks Branch member and retired attorney David Kladney.

FROM JOURNALIST DENNIS MYERS' DAILY POOR DENNY'S ALMANAC —

Wednesday, 29 June 2016 07:48:51 PDT

George Bush/June 29 2006: I’ve reminded the prime minister—the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship."

On this date in 1835, slaveowner William Travis raised a company of 25 men to fight for independence for northern Mexico because of the new Mexican constitution’s abolition of slavery; [EDITOR'S NOTE: Travis and his pro-slavery followers, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died at the Alamo]; in 1906, Anazasi ruins at Mesa Verde were declared a national park; in 1940, Dick Grayson’s family of high wire artists were killed by mobsters and Dick became Bruce Wayne’s ward; in 1944, the “liberty ship” H.G. Blasdel (named for Nevada’s first elected governor) was in convoy EMC 17 on its way to Omaha Beach when it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-984 about thirty miles south of the Isle of Wight (the liberty ships were rapidly built, mass-produced emergency ships constructed to a standard design from prefabricated pieces, called the “ugly ducklings” by President Franklin Roosevelt); in 1964, syndicated columnist Joseph Alsop published a column that sought to blame the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—a major arm of the civil rights movement—for the murder of the Mississippi Burning three: “Provoking the military occupation of [the south] is in fact the avowed aim of John Lewis, leader of the Students [sic] Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee…The organizers who send these young people into Mississippi must have wanted, even hoped for martyrs. And now, alas, they have got what they wanted.”; in 1992, a 5.6 earthquake occurred on a previously unknown fault at Little Skull Mountain, 12 miles from Yucca Mountain in Nye County; in 2009, President Obama held a reception commemorating the Stonewall riots and urged his gay supporters to judge him “not by promises I’ve made but by the promises that my administration keeps” (in the audience was Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, an Air Force officer facing discharge after someone informed his superiors that he is gay).

On June 28, 1914, exiled heavyweight champion Jack Johnson successfully defended his title against Frank Moran at the Velodrome d’Hiver in Paris. On June 28, 1971, four years after Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted and one year after it heard the case, the U.S. Supreme Court with its usual promptness overturned his conviction. (Editor's note: Ali said he patterned his boxing style after Johnson.)

ON THE AIR —> Reno-Sparks Branch President Patricia Gallimore and First Vice-President Andrew Barbano will guest on The Crisis Magazine Radio Program, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 at 10:10 a.m. PDT. The hostess will be Crisis Publisher Laura Blackburne. The call-in number is (516) 877-9843. Established in 1910, The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP. The program will air live on WTHE 1520-am in the New York City/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan area. A recording of the show will be available in a day or two at the station's website. Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

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Reno-Sparks NAACP and others win voting rights settlement vs. State of Nevada
Reno-Sparks NAACP President Patricia Gallimore: “Whether through bureaucratic inertia or intentional activity, we continually fight voter suppression in Nevada. This victory to expand and protect voter enfranchisement regardless of income is thus very welcome news. I would like to thank former Reno-Sparks Branch president Lonnie Feemster for all his hard work in making this settlement possible.” [READ MORE ABOUT IT]

Site map Membership Meeting Agendas NAACP Reno/Sparks Branch #1112 Phone: (775) 322-2992 P.O. Box 7757 Reno, NV 89510 Email: info@renosparksnaacp.org Meetings: second Thursday of each month Executive Committee 6:30 p.m /General Membership 7:00 p.m. 2015-16 Officers and Executive Committee Complaint Form The NAACP cannot act without a written complaint Membership Forms, choose format: .jpg or .pdf We Don't Need No Education: The Awful Truth Reno-Sparks-Washoe Education 2012: Smoke & Mirrors Saving Local Libraries 2016 Saving Local Libraries 2015 Saving Local Libraries 2012 Voting Rights 2015 Voting Rights 2012 Trayvon Martin Murder Archive How to join / Annual membership / Donate Links / History / Archives Mission and Objectives Meeting place and times 2015 Nevada Legislature 2016 News & Events Archive 2015 News & Events Archive 2014 News & Events Archive Annual César Chávez Day Celebration Reno-Sparks Branch Past-Presidents Honor Roll Reno-Sparks NAACP Facebook Page INSTAGRAM: renosparks_naacp

NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112 P.O. Box 7757 Reno, NV 89510 Phone (775) 322-2992 Contact: info@renosparksnaacp.org 2015-16 Officers Patricia Gallimore, President Andrew Barbano, First Vice-President/Webmaster Donald Gallimore, Sr., Second Vice-President Kelli Gallimore, Secretary Gale Sanders, Treasurer Executive Committee Lucille Adin, Gloria Bennett-Jackson, Lonnie Feemster, Donald Gallimore, Sr.; Kelli Gallimore, Jane Moon, Elder William Moon, Rev. William C. Webb, Larry Wilson (one vacancy) 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 membership and sponsorship information. Youth membership and corporate sponsorships are also available. You may remit your dues of donate online through E-Bay's secure PayPal service. E-mail the Branch Monthly meetings Second Thursday of each month Northern Nevada Hopes Third Floor Community Room 580 W. 5th Street * Reno, NV 89503 Executive Committee 6:30 p.m. General Membership 7:00 p.m. Meeting agendas Site map

Useful Links NAACP.org Other Nevada Branches OurStoryInc.com: "Contributions, heritage and culture of people who have not been well-represented in northern Nevada’s public image." Student-produced series supervised by former Reno-Sparks Branch President Kenneth Dalton, which led to the following article—> African-Americans who have shaped Nevada Several Reno-Sparks Branch members past & present profiled Matthew B. Brown / Nevada Magazine Jan-Feb 2014 Nevada Humanities Civil Rights Gallery History of Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112 University of Nevada Special Collections Alice Lucretia Smith, 1902-1990 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 History of Civil Rights in Nevada University of Nevada Oral History Program Includes links to the story of the fabled Las Vegas Moulin Rouge and the legacies of civil rights giants Lubertha Johnson, Gov. Grant Sawyer, Ralph Denton and Clarence Ray Lubertha Miller Johnson (1906-1989): NAACP branch president, Nevada civil rights and womens' rights pioneer Reno-Sparks Branch Past-Presidents Honor Roll Site map

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