NAACP Greeting:
As President of the Ogden Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), it gives me great pleasure to have you join us in the struggle to dismantle all vestiges of the discrimination in the public and private environments. Nearly one hundred years ago, a group of committed citizens came together in New York to draft a plan and build a movement for freedom that later became the NAACP.
Likewise, in the great city of Ogden, community members came together and decided to contact the National Office of the Association because of concerns over racial injustice. Their request for a Charter was granted and in 1944, the Ogden Branch of the NAACP became a reality.
We invite you today to join the NAACP family as we continue our fight for Freedom, Justice & Equality for all, regardless of race, ethnicity or nationality. Our theme for this year Power, Freedom, Justice, Vote, is quite fitting as our Nation stands poised to address major policy decisions around social and economic justice, healthcare, and education.
The Struggle Continues! Betty Sawyer
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The NAACP Advocate
Last month, the nation’s largest civil rights organizations, along with several community-based and consumer advocacy groups, came together for the “Save Our Homes: Restructure Loans, Not Repossess Homes” rally held in New York’s Financial District (Wall Street). The alliance offered strategies to end the mortgage crisis as well as predatory, discriminatory practices that plague the lending industry and have resulted in a record number of home foreclosures.
The broad coalition called for reforming current mortgage lending practices and a moratorium on active foreclosures. The NAACP and its partners demanded that the mortgage lending industry--all of whom have ties to Wall Street’s investment firms--and policy makers at all levels act now.
“The sub-prime loan is firmly implicated in the severity of the mortgage crisis,” said Interim NAACP President & CEO Dennis Court land Hayes. “Data shows us that African Americans disproportionately hold more than half of these higher priced loans that stymie families' attempts at keeping good credit, retaining their homes and amassing wealth. The home loans that have been offered to African Americans were built on financial quick sand and we are demanding that a solid foundation be laid to replace the damage that has been done and reduce the risk that stands to decimate whole communities.”
The coalition supports a seven point Home buyer’s Bill of Rights developed by the National Urban League that includes saving for home ownership, affordable housing opportunities, fairness in lending, fairness in case of loan default and aggressive enforcement of fair housing laws. The complete details of the Home buyer’s Bill of Rights can be found online at: www.naacp.org, www.nul.org or www.rainbowpush.org
Our Legacy
2008 NAACP Centennial Legacy Calendar
"Celebrating 99: Years People and Moments in the History of
the
NAACP"
The second edition of the NAACP Centennial Legacy Calendar will highlight such historical events in American history as: 1954 Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court Decision outlawing segregation in public education; the comprehensive 1964 Civil Rights Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson; 1965 Voting Rights Act, ensuring the right to vote for African American citizens, the tragic assassination in the summer of 1963 of NAACP Field Director Medgar W. Evers and in the fall, United States President John F. Kennedy; and the nomination of Thurgood Marshall, former NAACP Legal Counsel as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1967.
This 2008 historical document will provide you with a retrospective of the NAACP’s extraordinary history, which defined our past and shapes our future.
State Of Emergency
The NAACP has declared a State of Emergency in response to the recent surge in assaults against young African Americans as demonstrated by boot camp beating death of Martin Lee Anderson, noose hangings in Jena, Louisiana and other communities, and the assault by police on Shelwanda Riley. The rising level of violence against African Americans symbolized by these cases, as well as countless other dehumanizing attacks, requires immediate action by local and state authorities as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Congress.