NAACP Easton, PA, Branch #2260

Easton Branch Website: www.naacp-eastonpa.org

Easton Branch NAACP #2260: "Conversations with the Candidates" for Easton School District, Bryan Synder, Susan Hartranft-Bittinger, Tanya Keller, Dionne Wellington, Nekisha Robertson, Margaret Sayago, May 11, 2021 Easton Area Community Center. Easton Mayor Salvatore Panto facilitating.

Conversations with Candidates

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Black History Moment: Daisy Bates (November 11, 1914 November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.

Happy Founders Day: The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Mary Church Terrell, and the previously named whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former slave-holding family),Florence Kelley, a social reformer and friend of Du Bois;Oswald Garrison Villard, and Charles Edward Russell, a renowned muckraker and close friend of Walling. Russell helped plan the NAACP and had served as acting chairman of the National Negro Committee (1909), a forerunner to the NAACP

COVID-19 Testing, Easton Area Neighborhood Center, 902 Philadelphia Rd.

BLACK HISTORY MOMENT: Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of the Easton Assassin. Holmes, whose left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, The Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985, and the inaugural IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985. During his only title reign, he defended his title against 19 fighters, the second most in history behind Joe Louis and the most since the international expansion of boxing governing bodies. Holmes is one of only five boxersalong with Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks and Trevor Berbickto defeat Muhammad Ali; he is the only one to have stopped Ali.

In honor of the historic inaugural appointment of Kamala Harris: Wear your pearls.

MLK Day of Service and Executive Officers swearing in by County Executive Lamont G. McClure. Mayor Salvatore Panto was in attendance.Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to help distribute Personal Protection Equipment and lunch to residents of Shiloh Manor Easton Pa. Big Thank you to Teresa Wright Johnson and her efforts as health chair.