PHOTOS FROM FOUNDERS DAY
THANK YOU ALL FOR A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM!
A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO PAMELA JACKSON AND OUR YOUTH: INDIA MARTIN, TY MARTIN, KAMIRA MARTIN, SIMYA MARTIN, TERRENCE BLEDSOE, AND NATALYAH RUSH
Bring in old family photos from the 1880s to the 1950s for a free appraisal.
Learn how to preserve your photos (free archival materials provided).
Contribute your family stories to local history
Have a Holsinger style family portrait taken
View 500+ portraits of local African-Americans and learn more about Charlottesville area’s past through the photographs of the R.W. Holsinger/University Studio collection
The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is located on the Second floor of the Jefferson School City Center. Its main entrance is on Commerce St, one-block north of West Main Street. It can also be entered from the City Center’s 4th Street entrance. Over 200 free parking spaces on 4th Street.
NAACP FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATION
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 at 4:00 PM
at the Zion Baptist Church,
1015 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville
GUEST PRESENTER – DELEGATE DELORES McQUINN
Jazz Jamboree
Saturday, February 23 from 7:00 to 10:30 PM
at The Center, 491 Hillsdale Drive, Charlottesville.
Admission $20
Cash Bar
Celebrating the music of African-American Jazz Greats
Music by Michael Elswick and Company,
Featuring vocalist Nadine Michel
ALBEMARLE-CHARLOTTESVILLE
NAACP
The Albemarle-Charlottesville Branch of the NAACP will be hosting a
“Time for Reflections and Healing”
The event will be held on Sunday, August 12 – 4PM at the
Zion Union Baptist Church – 1015 Preston Avenue.
Confirmed speakers and guests thusfar:
Honorable Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau
Jonathan McKinney, NAACP Mid-Atlantic Regional Director
Virginia State Conference NAACP President, Pastor Kevin Chandler
Richmond VA.'s First Union Baptist Church Male Chorus
Susan Bro
University of Virginia President-Elect, Jim Ryan
University of Virginia Historian, John Mason
Actor and Director, Leslie Scott Jones,
Delegate David Toscano
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND
For further information, please contact the NAACP office
434-220-1493
AT THE LOCAL BRANCH LEVEL, THE FREEDOM FUND BANQUET IS AN ANNUAL FUND RAISER HELD BY EVERY BRANCH OF THE NAACP.
THE PURPOSE IS TO RAISE MONIES TO ADVANCE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES AND TO ENSURE THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL WELL_ BEING OF ALL PEOPLE.
