Officers
Kevin Watkins Sr. - President
Bobie Jones - 1st Vice President
Mary Williams - 2nd Vice President
Cynthia Bankston - Treasurer
Keshia Evans - Secretary
April Malick - Assistant Secretary
Executive Committee Members At Large
Gretchen Ploeger
Rob Malick
Marilyn Moncrief
Julia Price
William Livingston
Adriana LaCroix (Youth Rep and President)
The Port Huron Branch of the NAACP is lead by an Executive Team who oversee the activities and work of the standing committees. Our local NAACP is further overseen by the Michigan State Conference which is overseen by the National NAACP headquarter in Maryland.
We are committed to a world without racism where Black people enjoy equitable opportunities in thriving communities. Our work is rooted in racial equity, civic engagement, and supportive policies and institutions for all marginalized people.
We are committed to a world without racism where Black people enjoy equitable opportunities in thriving communities. Our work is rooted in racial equity, civic engagement, and supportive policies and institutions for all marginalized people.
In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the creation of the NAACP. Appalled at this rampant violence, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both the descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth.
On February 12, 1909, the nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born.
Echoing the focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement for civil rights, which began in 1905, NAACP aimed to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, provide equal protection of the law, and the right for all men to vote, respectively. Accordingly, the NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP works to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
The national office was established in New York City in 1910 as well as a board of directors and president, Moorfield Storey, a white constitutional lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association. Other early members included Joel and Arthur Spingarn, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge, John Haynes Holmes, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Lillian Wald, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, and Walter Sachs. Despite a foundational commitment to multiracial membership, Du Bois was the only African American among the organization's original executives. He was made director of publications and research and in 1910 established The Crisis, the acclaimed publication of the NAACP.
Helping on the committe level is where action happens. This is where we need you to use your talents and passions to help drive change. We have the following active committees:
Legal Redress
Press & Publicity
Community Cooridnation
Education
Finance
Freedom Fund
Health
Membership
Political Action
Religious Affairs
Youth Division
WIN (Women in the NAACP) * coming soon
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