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One pair on lower pool but always distant
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I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
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A civic organization that was founded by Garret A. Morgan (standing second from the right next to the gentleman in light colored suite), in 1908. The Cleveland Association of Colored Men provided information, social and legal assistance to the colored community of Cleveland. The organization later merged with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In 1905, a group of 32 prominent, outspoken African Americans met to discuss the challenges facing "people of color" (a term that was used to describe those who are not white people) in the U.S. and possible strategies and solutions. Because hotels in the U.S. were segregated, the men convened, under the leadership of Harvard scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, at a hotel situated on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. As a result, the group came to be known as the Niagara Movement, the predecesssor of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). A year later, three whites joined the group: journalist William E. Walling; social worker Mary White Ovington; and Jewish social worker Henry Moskowitz..
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Emancipation Day Speaker Rev. Margaret Walker during the New Britain Brand NAACP Emancipation Day Program at the Bethesda Apostolic Church Friday morning.
Strobist: SB800 1/16 power, bare off to my left, set off with a Pocket Wizard.
Oliver Hill, Va. counsel for the NAACP (left) and Edwin C. Brown, regional counsel for the NAACP arrive at the Post Office building in Alexandria September 18, 1957 for a hearing on a motion by the county of Arlington to delay desegregation of its school system scheduled for the following week.
Judge Albert V. Bryan issued the stay of his own order to desegregate four Arlington schools, meaning that the system would continue to be segregated. Hill and Brown opposed the stay.
At the time, the state of Virginia required the closure of any school system that admitted Black students to white schools
Initial desegregation occurred a year-and-a-half later on February 2, 1959 when four Black students were admitted to Stratford Junior High School in Arlington, Va. to become the first Black children to enter formerly all-white public schools in the city.
The initial integration of Arlington schools took five years following the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. The state of Virginia engaged in “massive resistance” to integration with some school systems closing and the state providing aid to all-white private schools.
The state removed the elected Arlington school board at one point when they adopted a modest integration plan in the wake of a court decision.
The court suit that brought about the integration of Arlington schools was initially filed in 1957. Despite the four children entering Stratford in 1959, it would take another 20 years for all Arlington schools to be integrated.
Oliver Hill biography:
Oliver Hill was born in 1907 and spent most of his boyhood in Roanoke, Va. His mother moved to Washington, D.C. while he was a teen where he completed high school.
He worked as a waiter and a porter in order to have enough money to attend Howard University. He ultimately enrolled in the Howard University Law School headed by pioneering civil rights leader Charles Hamilton Houston where he received a law degree in 1933, graduating second in his class. Thurgood Marshall graduated first.
Hill moved back to Roanoke, Va. where his law practice failed during the Great Depression. He then waited tables in Washington, D.C. until he had enough money to open a practice in Richmond.
Hill won his first civil rights case in 1940 gaining equal pay for black teachers in Norfolk, Va.
Hill took on a number of anti-discrimination cases including voting rights, jury selection and worker protections.
He was the. Initial attorney in the Irene Morgan case, a Black woman from Baltimore, Maryland, who was arrested in Middlesex County, Virginia, in 1944 under a state law imposing racial segregation in public facilities and transportation. She was traveling on an interstate bus that operated under federal law and regulations. She refused to give up her seat in what the driver said was the "white section."
The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1946, which outlawed segregation on interstate buses, though the state of Virginia refused to comply—with the exception of some bus companies in Northern Virginia that provided service into the District of Columbia.
He also knew the bitterness of defeat, including the state of Virginia’s 1951 execution of seven young black men in the Martinsville 7 rape case. Every execution for rape in Virginia was a black man convicted of raping a white woman, but his argument on discriminatory sentencing was lost at the time.
However it was also in 1951 that he, along with Spottswood Robinson, took on the case of black high school students in Farmville, Va. in what would become his most famous case.
In April 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns “organized a student strike protesting deplorable conditions at segregated all-Black Moton High School in Farmville, Va.,” according to Marian Wright Edelman.
“The school had no gymnasium, cafeteria, infirmary or teachers restrooms. Because of the overcrowded conditions, some students had to be taught in a school bus and in three buildings covered with tarpaper.”
“During the two week protest, involving 450 students, Johns requested legal assistance from the NAACP branch office in Richmond.”
“In May 1951, Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson, another member of the Marshall legal team, filed a lawsuit on behalf of 117 students calling for Virginia’s school segregation laws to be struck down.”
“A three-judge federal district court panel unanimously rejected the suit, upholding Virginia’s ‘separate but equal’ policy while ordering the state to ‘equalize’ conditions at the school. The Supreme Court overturned the decision as part of its Brown [v. Board of Education, 1954] ruling.”
However, the story didn’t end there.
Public schools were closed in Prince Edward County in 1959 in order to forestall integration, as part of the state’s “massive resistance” to integration. Private all-white schools were set up with state aid while black students languished.
African American students were left without any public education for four years. Some attended makeshift schools in the county, some attended schools in other parts of the country, while others missed large portions of their education during those years.
Nonetheless, not until 1964, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed Virginia's tuition grants to private education, did Prince Edward County reopen its schools, on an integrated basis. This event marked the end of Massive Resistance, but not the end of resistance to integration.
Hill practiced civil rights law through the period in which the state of Virginia sought to outlaw NAACP legal representation as part of its “massive resistance” to desegregation. In 1956 the General Assembly passed a law that broadened the definition of “no solicitation” by attorneys to include NAACP representation of civil rights suits. The law also required the organization to reveal the names of contributors who funded the suits. The contributions section was voided by state courts, but it took until 1963 for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of the NAACP in the NAACP v. Button case.
He continued his legal career in the face of threats to him and his family and a cross burning on his lawn. By one account the city of Richmond sent emergency equipment, with sirens blaring, every 15 minutes to his house in an attempt to intimidate him.
Hill lost a close election in 1947 in attempting to win a delegate seat to the General Assembly, but the following year won an election to the Richmond City Council, the first Black person since the Reconstruction era to do so.
He was one of the organizers of the Virginia State NAACP and the Old Dominion Bar Association for Black lawyers when the state bar refused to admit African American attorneys.
His civil rights legal career spanned seven decades and he only retired in 1998 because he developed blindness.
Hill received the NAACP Spingarn medal and a Presidential Medal of Freedom after retirement and died at age 100 in 2007 in Richmond, Va.
Edwin C. Brown Sr.:
Edwin C. Brown Sr. was an NAACP regional counsel based in Alexandria and was often the lead on school desegregation cases in Alexandria and Arlington from 1956-58. He also handled other civil rights cases in Northern Virginia.
His career was derailed when he was convicted of income tax evasion, sentenced to prison in 1958 and disbarred after his release in 1959.
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Photo by Jack Horan. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Lt. Governor Rutherford Addresses the State NAACP meeting by Joe Andrucyk at Hilton Double Tree Hotel, 5485 Twin Knolls Road, Columbia Maryland 21045
In this image released by NBC News, former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal appears on the "Today" show set on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in New York. Dolezal was born to two parents who say they are white, but she chooses instead to self-identify as black. Her ability to think she has a choice shows a new fluidity in race in a diversifying America, a place where the rigid racial structures that defined most of this country’s history seems, for some, to be falling to the wayside. (Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP)
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Actress Taraji P. Henson poses at the Ciroc party during the 41st NAACP Image awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on February 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for Ciroc) *** Local Caption *** Taraji P. Henson
27 Jul 1963, St. Louis, Missouri, USA --- The St. Louis Board of Education was picketed by the NAACP after the Board issued a modified enrollment plan which the NAACP did not go far enough in integrating the schools. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
The NAACP Interracial Committee played a significant role in the effort to desegregate restaurants in the U.S. Capitol during the first six months of 1934. Shown here is a photograph of Washington, D.C. NAACP workers taken in 1934.
Charles Russell, a founder of the NAACP and muckraking journalist, along with several other members of the Interracial Committee joined interracial groups that staged an early version of the sit-in attempting to desegregate the restaurants through direct action.
The impetus to the demonstrations occurred when U.S. Rep. Oscar DePriest’s (R-Il.) confidential secretary, Morris Lewis, was barred from the House public restaurant along with his son. Another instance of Jim Crow occurred when Mabel Byrd was forcibly removed from the Senate public restaurant in February.
The enforcement of Jim Crow in the Capitol building led to 10 days of small parties of interracial diners seeking service in the restaurants—sometimes successfully—in an attempt to desegregate the restaurants.
Approximately 30 Howard University students came to the Capitol on March 17th attempting to gain service in the House and Senate restaurants but were barred by police. One was arrested at the Capitol and four others at the precinct house where they went to bail out their fellow student. Charges were all dropped later.
This series of protests marked the first sit-in demonstrations for civil rights in the nation’s capital and perhaps the country.
DePriest offered a resolution for an investigation that passed the House, but the investigating committee, the majority appointed by the Democratic Speaker of the House, found that the restaurant was a private one operated for the members of the House and their guests and therefore no discrimination occurred. This was despite the white public being admitted without a member of Congress and African Americans barred.
Speaker of the House Thomas Rainey (D-Il) let the clock run out as Congress adjourned in June to avoid a debate and vote on the issue.
Jim Crow continued in the Capitol for nearly 20 more years.
For a detailed blog post on the fight against Jim Crow in the U.S. Capitol restaurants, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/origins-of-the-c...
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Photo by Addison N. Scurlock. The image is courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
She didn't win. DORA won. Dora fails. Dora is like a fucking bilingual two year old who can't find a banana tree that's right behind her without our help.
WOWP deserved it.
The District of Columbia NAACP branch voted in 1941 to take action by picketing Safeway grocery stores because of the refusal of the management to employ African American clerks.
Rev. R. W. Brooks is among those pictured.
The effort organized by the New Negro Alliance sought to use the boycott to force an end to Jim Crow hiring in chain stores in the city.
Rev. Brooks was an activist minister who was pastor of the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church.
He aided the “Scottsboro Boys” campaign, the movement against police brutality in the city and other civil rights causes.
Among them was the effort to desegregate restaurants at the U.S. Capitol in 1934.
Rev. Brooks was part of the delegation that met with U.S. Senator Royal Copeland after the Senate public restaurant forcibly removed civil rights activist Mabel Byrd in February 1934.
Copeland denied that the Senate restaurant practiced Jim Crow and claimed Byrd was denied service for lack of tables. He then ordered a separate table for African Americans.
He later reversed himself, apologizing for Byrd being barred and withdrew the separate table. Subsequent events showed that the Senate tried to avoid barring African Americans and saying race was the issue, instead delaying, making excuses and utilizing other tactics to discourage African Americans from eating in the restaurant.
The impetus to the campaign started when U.S. Representative Oscar DePriest’s confidential secretary, Morris Lewis, was barred from the House public restaurant along with his son in January 1934.
The enforcement of Jim Crow in the Capitol building led to 10 days of small parties of interracial diners seeking service in the restaurants—sometimes successfully—in an attempt to desegregate the restaurants.
Approximately 30 Howard University students came to the Capitol on March 17th attempting to gain service in the House and Senate restaurants but were barred by police. One was arrested at the Capitol and four others at the precinct house where they went to bail out their fellow student. Charges were all dropped later.
This series of protests marked the first sit-in demonstrations for civil rights in the nation’s capital and perhaps the country.
DePriest’s offered a resolution for an investigation that passed the House, but the investigating committee, the majority appointed by the Democratic Speaker of the House, found that the restaurant was a private one operated for the members of the House and their guests and therefore no discrimination occurred. This was despite the white public being admitted without a member of Congress and African Americans barred.
Speaker Thomas Rainey, seeking to avoid a debate and vote on the issue, simply let Congress adjourn without bringing the report to the House floor.
Jim Crow continued in the Capitol for nearly 20 more years.
For a detailed blog post on the fight against Jim Crow in the U.S. Capitol public restaurants, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/origins-of-the-c...
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The photographer is unknown. The image is from the May 1941 The Crisis, published by the NAACP.
A man holds a NAACP banner as another waves flags outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2016, as activists from allied organizations rally for Democracy, Voting Rights and Immigration Reform. #Democracy Awakens. Photo by Greenpeace
PASADENA, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Actress Tristin Mays attends the 48th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 11, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for NAACP Image Awards)
Hofstra’s chapter of NAACP held two workshops with invited speakers Amanda Seales and Sawandi Wilson, who discussed the gender divide in the current racial climate, and how to overcome and be successful through the different adversities each gender experiences. The workshops were followed by a town hall discussion on the self-image of the black community, and how we as a community can come together to support one another to build a framework for change.
Photographer: Hayley Pudney '19
When the first lady appeared before the NAACP at the group’s annual conference here Monday to talk about childhood obesity in African-American communities, she connected easily with the crowd. Reaching back to her Chicago South Side roots and her years as a working mom, Michelle Obama made clear she understands how hard tackling the problem can be for working parents.
- Amie Parnes, politico.com
photo courtesy AP Photo
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Lt. Governor Rutherford Attends the NAACP Reception In Baltimore by Joe Andrucyk at 701 E Pratt St, Baltimore MD
Eugene Davidson, president of the D.C. NAACP and the former administrator of the New Negro Alliance, is shown August 19, 1956 in his office after an NAACP request to present school data at a congressional hearing on school integration went unanswered.
The hearing was held that day with Rep. James C. Davis (D-Ga.), Rep. John Bell Williams (D-MI), and Joel T. Broyhill (R-VA), all of whom had signed the Southern anti-integration manifesto earlier in the year, in attendance.
NAACP lobbyist Clarence Mitchell told news reporters at the hearing of the House District Subcommittee that the congressmen present were “the worst kind of bigots.”
The NAACP’s letter to Rep. Davis read in part:
“Since the avowed purpose of your hearing is to get for the Congress a fair and unbiased picture of the results of the complioance with the law by our Board of Education, The D.C. branch of the NAACP, requests that a portion of such hearings be allotted to it to present facts and interpretation of the facts.”
“At such a time we could present witnesses and experts which would aid your committee in revealing a true picture of the desegregation process in the nation’s capital.”
However, the committee did even deem to reply to the request.
Davidson was a real estate broker who first worked in the family real estate business and later founded his own firm in 1947.
Eugene V. Davidson, the president of the District of Columbia NAACP from 1952 to 1958.
Davidson gained early fame when he was named administrator of the New Negro Alliance in 1939.
Davidson broadened the NNA to include left-wing activists like Doxey Wilkerson, U. Simpson Tate and George H. Rycraw as well as moderates like future mayor Walter Washington and Roberta Hastie, wife of Judge William H. Hastie.
The group had been picketing and boycotting stores in the District since 1933 under the slogan, “Don’t buy where you can’t work.”
The group had initial success in a number of smaller stores and early on convinced the A&P grocery store to integrate three of its stores located in black neighborhoods, but efforts had stalled.
Davidson renewed the offensive against smaller stores and quickly desegregated Joseph Oxenburg at 1314 7th Street NW, Bonnett’s Shore Store at 1310 7th Street and Capitol Shoe Store at 1338 7th Street.
He recruited national NAACP president Walter White and prominent rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune to picket People’s Drug Store demanding that the chain hire black clerks and cashiers.
Despite the renewed pressure, chains like Sanitary Grocery (Safeway) and People’s Drug Store successfully resisted the pressure.
During 1941, Davidson helped organize the local chapter of A. Phillip Randolph’s March on Washington Movement whose threatened demonstration prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to issue an executive order barring discrimination in defense-related industry.
While head of the local NAACP, Davidson oversaw the end of legal segregation in the District and challenged many institutions to live up to the law, including D.C. schools, the police and fire departments, and the board of realtors.
It was after he charged the District police department with brutality in 1957 that a cross was burned in front of his house.
Davidson was a District of Columbia native who graduated from what would become Dunbar High School. He graduated from Howard University, received an A. B. degree from Harvard and returned to Howard to get a bachelor of laws degree.
He began assisting his father, who had been the first executive secretary of the District of Columbia NAACP, in the family real estate business. He continued to run the company until his retirement in 1973.
He served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant in World War I and at one time was editor of three black-oriented newspapers in the city.
Davidson died in 1976
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Photo by Paul Schmick. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Actress Taraji P. Henson poses at the Ciroc party during the 41st NAACP Image awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on February 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for Ciroc) *** Local Caption *** Taraji P. Henson
Lt. Governor Aruna Miller speaks at the MoCo NAACP Freedom Fund Gala by Joe Andrucyk at Martins Crosswinds 7400 Greenway Center Dr, Greenbelt, MD 20770,
The D.C. branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publishes a flyer for their 1948 membership drive.
The flyer lays out the groups achievements in the previous year and sets an agenda of
1. To eliminate discrimination in government employment
2. For FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] legislation
3. For the right to vote
4. For equal educational facilities
5. For better parks and recreational facilities
6. For better housing, especially for veterans
7. For freedom from fear of police brutality and mob violence
The group pitched making D.C. stand for “Democracy’s Capital” in terms of a beacon for non-discrimination.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/1948-naacp-me...
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The image is courtesy of the Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Tomlinson D. Todd, Henry P. Whitehead collection.
Rally & Vigil for Trayvon Martin sponsored by Rev Al Sharpton's National Action Network at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
Speakers included Judge Eric Mathis, Rev Sharpton, New York NAACP head Hazel Dukes & Congressional Representative from Harlem, Charles Rangel.
Rally & Vigil for Trayvon Martin sponsored by Rev Al Sharpton's National Action Network at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
Speakers included Judge Eric Mathis, Rev Sharpton, New York NAACP head Hazel Dukes & Congressional Representative from Harlem, Charles Rangel.
NAACP marchers in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. August 28, 1963, Washington, DC, USA.
Photo by: Matt Mager
NAACP President Speaking at NYC’s LGBT Center
Wed., Sept. 22, 2010, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Ford Motor Company Fund returned as sole sponsor of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau Symposium, marking its 10th year with the title “Moving Forward: The State of the Industry.” The annual event was held Thursday, Feb. 20, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The event was free to the public.
A portion of Ford’s sponsorship will be directed to support community programs, including a $10,000 grant to Duke Media Foundation.
Last year, the film entertainment industry set a record with box office receipts totaling $11 billion. Black filmmakers, including an increased number of black film directors and actors starring in lead roles, as well as gripping feature films and moving historical pieces all played a role in this unprecedented success.
“Ford is proud to be working again with the NAACP Hollywood Bureau Symposium to showcase a renaissance in black film at all levels,” said Pamela Alexander, director of community development, Ford Motor Company Fund. “We congratulate the award-winning Bill Duke and Duke Media Foundation for their work in developing media and financial literacy programs to prepare inner-city and gifted high school students for the new digital media age.”
The event focused on whether this newfound success was due to a broader industry trend or the achievement of a new stronghold for blacks in the film industry. More than 300 people including Hollywood entertainers, NAACP board members, members of the NAACP Image Awards’ committee and television academy, as well as film and television students from local colleges and universities convened for this event. They also engaged in the question and answer session by directly addressing the panel participants with various inquiries. All panelists encourage aspiring artists to persevere and learn to perfect their craft.
Panel participants included humanitarian/activist/director Bill Duke, CAA agent Cameron Mitchell, senior vice president of production for Columbia Tristar Pictures Devon Franklin, and author and producer Flo McAfee. Ramsey Jay Jr., nationally renowned writer, interviewer and producer, served as panel moderator.
The Hollywood Bureau Symposium was one of several popular events held during Image Awards week. The 45th NAACP Image Awards aired Saturday, Feb. 22, from 9 to 11 p.m. on TV One. Check local listings for encore broadcasts.
About Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services works with community partners to advance driving safety, education and community life. For more than 60 years, Ford Motor Company Fund has operated with ongoing funding from Ford Motor Company. The award-winning Ford Driving Skills for Life program teaches new drivers through a variety of hands-on and interactive methods. Innovation in education is encouraged through programs that enhance high school learning and provide college scholarships and university grants. Through the Ford Volunteer Corps, more than 25,000 Ford employees and retirees work on projects each year that better their communities in more than 30 countries. For more information, visit www.community.ford.com.
About NAACP Hollywood Bureau
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the NAACP Hollywood Bureau opened officially in October 2002. The NAACP Hollywood Bureau is a satellite of the National office that deals with issues of diversity programming and minority employment in Hollywood, and oversees the production of the NAACP Image Awards. Recognizing the national and international influence of power of the entertainment industry, the Hollywood Bureau was established as part of the follow-up to the NAACP Diversity Initiative started in 1999.
About Duke Media Foundation
Duke Media Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization with a distinct emphasis on offering media and financial literacy to inner-city youth ages 14 through 18, in South Los Angeles, California. The combined focus of these two disciplines is what separates Duke Media from all other programs. The organization was founded in 2008 by actor, director, producer and humanitarian, Bill Duke. The Duke Media Foundation’s mission is to seek to train and empower under served and gifted high school students in the disciplines of media literacy, financial literacy, the science of branding and entrepreneurship in preparation for careers in the new digital media age.
Rally & Vigil for Trayvon Martin sponsored by Rev Al Sharpton's National Action Network at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
Speakers included Judge Eric Mathis, Rev Sharpton, New York NAACP head Hazel Dukes & Congressional Representative from Harlem, Charles Rangel.
Ford Motor Company Fund returned as sole sponsor of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau Symposium, marking its 10th year with the title “Moving Forward: The State of the Industry.” The annual event was held Thursday, Feb. 20, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The event was free to the public.
A portion of Ford’s sponsorship will be directed to support community programs, including a $10,000 grant to Duke Media Foundation.
Last year, the film entertainment industry set a record with box office receipts totaling $11 billion. Black filmmakers, including an increased number of black film directors and actors starring in lead roles, as well as gripping feature films and moving historical pieces all played a role in this unprecedented success.
“Ford is proud to be working again with the NAACP Hollywood Bureau Symposium to showcase a renaissance in black film at all levels,” said Pamela Alexander, director of community development, Ford Motor Company Fund. “We congratulate the award-winning Bill Duke and Duke Media Foundation for their work in developing media and financial literacy programs to prepare inner-city and gifted high school students for the new digital media age.”
The event focused on whether this newfound success was due to a broader industry trend or the achievement of a new stronghold for blacks in the film industry. More than 300 people including Hollywood entertainers, NAACP board members, members of the NAACP Image Awards’ committee and television academy, as well as film and television students from local colleges and universities convened for this event. They also engaged in the question and answer session by directly addressing the panel participants with various inquiries. All panelists encourage aspiring artists to persevere and learn to perfect their craft.
Panel participants included humanitarian/activist/director Bill Duke, CAA agent Cameron Mitchell, senior vice president of production for Columbia Tristar Pictures Devon Franklin, and author and producer Flo McAfee. Ramsey Jay Jr., nationally renowned writer, interviewer and producer, served as panel moderator.
The Hollywood Bureau Symposium was one of several popular events held during Image Awards week. The 45th NAACP Image Awards aired Saturday, Feb. 22, from 9 to 11 p.m. on TV One. Check local listings for encore broadcasts.
About Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services works with community partners to advance driving safety, education and community life. For more than 60 years, Ford Motor Company Fund has operated with ongoing funding from Ford Motor Company. The award-winning Ford Driving Skills for Life program teaches new drivers through a variety of hands-on and interactive methods. Innovation in education is encouraged through programs that enhance high school learning and provide college scholarships and university grants. Through the Ford Volunteer Corps, more than 25,000 Ford employees and retirees work on projects each year that better their communities in more than 30 countries. For more information, visit www.community.ford.com.
About NAACP Hollywood Bureau
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the NAACP Hollywood Bureau opened officially in October 2002. The NAACP Hollywood Bureau is a satellite of the National office that deals with issues of diversity programming and minority employment in Hollywood, and oversees the production of the NAACP Image Awards. Recognizing the national and international influence of power of the entertainment industry, the Hollywood Bureau was established as part of the follow-up to the NAACP Diversity Initiative started in 1999.
About Duke Media Foundation
Duke Media Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization with a distinct emphasis on offering media and financial literacy to inner-city youth ages 14 through 18, in South Los Angeles, California. The combined focus of these two disciplines is what separates Duke Media from all other programs. The organization was founded in 2008 by actor, director, producer and humanitarian, Bill Duke. The Duke Media Foundation’s mission is to seek to train and empower under served and gifted high school students in the disciplines of media literacy, financial literacy, the science of branding and entrepreneurship in preparation for careers in the new digital media age.