NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
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Reno-Sparks
NAACP executive committee and general membership meetings
Second
Thursday of each month
Northern Nevada Hopes
Third Floor Community
Room
580 W. 5th Street @ Ralston * Reno, NV 89503
Executive
Committee 6:30 p.m.
General Membership 7:00 p.m.
Next meeting: July 11, 2019
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Breaking
News —>
Former
Branch President Recovering from Kidney Transplant Surgery
Salt
Lake City, UT (June 18)
— Former Reno-Sparks Branch president (1997-98)
and current executive committee member Kenneth
B. Dalton remains hospitalized in Salt Lake
City after successful kidney transplant surgery. He
is a retired Reno firefighter.
Current
President Lonnie Feemster spoke with Mr. Dalton
on June 18.
"I let him know of the many inquiries of concern
for him and his condition. He was moved by the outpouring
of love and expressed his sincere appreciation,"
Mr. Feemster stated. "He was in good spirits
and is recuperating well," he added.
Watch this space for updates and keep him in your
prayers.
UPDATE
June 25, 2019 8:44:33 AM PDT — FROM KENNY
VIA SHAYNE DEL COHEN: "DOING GREAT — Hey
SHAYNE. I just got back from 1.9 mile walk."
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Photo
array courtesy of Our
Story, Inc., Mr. Dalton's highly honored
non-profit television project chronicling the
history of African Americans in Nevada.
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ON
THIS DATE IN HISTORY:
NAACP LEADER SLAIN IN JACKSON — PROTESTS MOUNT
13
June 1963 (The New York Times) — A day
after President Kennedy asked all citizens to take
up the cause of civil rights, Medgar Evers, Mississippi
Field Secretary for the NAACP, was assassinated in
front of his home. Myrlie Evers, his wife, told protestors
that night that "her husband had spoken of death
last Sunday and said he was ready to go," The
Times reported. Byron De La Beckwith was finally
convicted of the murder three decades later.
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NAACP
President Lonnie Feemster responds to Sen. Ira Hansen's slavery
comments
Barbwire by Andrew
Barbáno
/ Expanded
from the 4-24-2019 Sparks Tribune
Politics
does not reward the shy
Rent
justification and a death penalty for corporate depredation
UPDATE:
Fairness for tenants dies 4-12 unless lawmakers throw it a
lifeline
Barbwire by Andres
Luis Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 4-10-2019
Sparks Tribune
ON
THIS DATE IN HISTORY: On April 9, 1939, world-renowned
contralto Marian Anderson performed before an
audience of 75,000 in front of the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, DC. She had been banned from Constitution
Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution
because of her skin color. First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt promptly quit the DAR (many others followed)
and arranged for her to sing in front of the statue
of President Lincoln. U.S. Dept. of Interior
Secretary Harold Ickx addressed the crowd. Her performance
included "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Franz
Schubert's "Ave Maria." Legendary conductor
Arturo Toscanini called her voice "one that
comes along every hundred years." A film of the
event was circulated to U.S. public schools in the early
1950's...On April 9, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., was laid to rest in Atlanta, Georgia.
Per King's request, his good friend Mahalia Jackson
sang his favorite hymn, "Take My Hand, Precious
Lord."
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His
own Man: Nevada Legislature learned to work with a black senator
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 2-21-2019 / Review
of "The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal's lifelong fight for
social justice"
Clarification about the review: In 2003,
Sen. Neal won passage of an increase in Nevada's gambling
tax on the state's largest, most profitable casinos.
It has not risen since he retired in 2004.
Sen. Neal and author John L. Smith
will autograph copies on March
27 at César
Chávez XVII at the Grand Sierra-Reno.
The
event will pay tribute to the memory of NAACP matriarch and
former president Dolores
Feemster, who died in 2018, as well as to former Nevada
Attorney General and Chief Justice Charles Springer,
who died on Feb. 19. Springer stands with the giants for his
lifelong advocacy of all aspects of human rights (civil rights,
minority rights, women's rights, workers' rights). Sen.
Neal, D-N. Las Vegas (ret.), will lead a tribute to
his fellow César Chávez NevadaLabor.com Hall
of Famerand legislative colleague Assemblymember
Bob Price (IBEW 357/AFL-CIO), D-N. Las Vegas (ret.),
who passed away on January 4, 2019.
The
Reno-Sparks Branch will sign up new members and register voters,
as usual.
Hot
off the press: "The Westside Slugger"
The life and times biography of Joseph
M. Neal, Jr.
Nevada's first African-American
senator
By Nevada Press Association Hall of Famer John L. Smith
Published
in January 2019 by the University
of Nevada Press
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54
Years Ago This Week
March
22, 1965 — Two weeks after Martin Luther King's
first attempt to lead a march from Selma, Ala., was
routed on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a new processsion
started for Montgomery. This time, protected by federal
troops, the group walked seven miles on the first
day of their journey to deliver a civil rights petition
to the capital.
"The
Alabama march appears destined for a niche in the
annals of great protest demonstrations," The
New York Times reported.
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— From
The New York Times 3-22-2019
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Womens'
History Month: Alice Lucretia Smith, 1902-1990
Nevada
Womens' History Project honors branch founder and former president
By Kay Sanders / Reno Gazette-Journal / Sunday
3-24-2019
Trump's
Wall: First step toward ending Nixon's War on Drugs
"Our
for-profit prisons overflow with mostly black and brown people
convicted of dastardly crimes like possession of two ounces
of the Demon Weed."
Barbwire by Andres
Luis Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 2-20-2019
Sparks Tribune
BLACK
LIKE ME 2119: The problem as solution
Barbwire
by Andrew
Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 2-13-2019 Sparks Tribune
Courage
and repression: Black history has lessons for us all
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review cover story 2-7-14
Reno-Sparks
NAACP Commemorates "Great White Hope" Fight of the
Century
Hall
of Fame Nevada Assemblymember Bob Price Dies
Hot
off the press: "The Westside Slugger"
The life and times biography of Joseph
M. Neal, Jr.
Nevada's first African-American
senator
By Nevada Press Association Hall of Famer John L. Smith
Published
in January 2019 by the University
of Nevada Press
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January
8, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
FOR
MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Lonnie L. Feemster (775) 722-0042
NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
<lonnielfeemster@netscape.net>
Andrew Barbano
(775) 786-1455
<barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>
RenoSparksNAACP.org
A
New Season of Community Consensus and Census
Reno-Sparks
NAACP Swears in New President Thursday
Installation
of officers, 2019-2020 goal-setting
RENO, Nev.
— Lonnie L. Feemster will be sworn in
to his record-breaking fifth non-consecutive two-year
term as president of the Reno-Sparks NAACP this Thursday,
January 10. Other newly-elected officers not previously
inducted will also be installed. He succeeds Patricia
Y. Gallimore who served two terms, 2014-2018.
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Lonnie
L. Feemster
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"I
am committed to build on the strong foundation laid
by those who have served the Reno-Sparks NAACP over
the years," Feemster said.
"We had a very active and successful 2018 and
thanks to the efforts of all involved, the Reno-Sparks
Branch now enjoys the highest visibility in its 74-year
history," he added.
"We will use 2019 to ramp up our community outreach
programs as the 2020 election season and U.S. Census
approach," Feemster stated. He served as a statewide
community outreach specialist in the 2000 and 2010
census campaigns.
"The NAACP has mentored many young adults over
the years and I will bring some into leadership roles
in the local branch. We will continue to provide scholarships,
positive learning experiences and leadership development
as part of our NAACP Youth Council activities,"
Feemster noted.
"The Reno-Sparks NAACP will continue and increase
our work to collaborate with our school district,
local governments, law enforcement and the corporate
community in Northern Nevada. We will also monitor
legislation and work with other organizations in the
upcoming session of the Nevada Legislature.
"We
strongly support professional development training
and a proactive approach to the elimination of racial
bias and all aspects of racial discrimination in our
community," Feemster stated.
He noted
with concern a recent increase in the number
of civil rights complaints being reported to the Branch
Legal Redress Committee.
Lonnie L. Feemster is a local real estate broker,
Nevada State Director of the NAACP National Voter
Fund and Vice-President of the NAACP Idaho/Nevada/Utah
Tri-State Conference of Branches.
A complete list of elected officers and executive
committee members appears hereinbelow.
The mission of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational,
social and economic equality of rights of all persons
and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
The membership meets on the second Thursday of each
month in the Third Floor Community Room of Northern
Nevada Hopes, 580 W. 5th Street @ Ralston, Reno
89503. The Executive Committee convenes at 6:30 p.m.
and the general membership meeting starts at 7:00
p.m.
SIGN
UP TO BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
2019-2020 OFFICERS
Lonnie L. Feemster, President
Andrew L. Barbano, First Vice-President
Patricia Y. Gallimore, Second Vice-President
Donald Gallimore, Sr., Third Vice-President
Cheryl (Cheri) Vocelka, Secretary
Ms. CJ Miller, Assistant Secretary
Stephanie McCurry, Treasurer
Shannon Gallimore, Assistant Treasurer
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
Lucille Adin, Twice Past-President
Ken Dalton, Past-President*
Norris Dupree, Jr., Ph.D.
Duane Foster
Terrell Foster, Ph.D.
Toni Harris
Dorothy Ingraham
Adrian Lowry
Jane Moon
Bertha Mullins
Joyce Newman
Wendell Newman
Janet Serial
Nnedi Stephens
John Aaron White, Esq.
Ambassador Victor Wowo, Sr.
*Former
President Dalton was recently appointed to the City
of Reno Civil Service Commission
upon which former Branch President William
Moon (1932-2017) served with distinction.
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