NAACP News Conference to Announce High Point as 2011 State Convention

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

25 August 2011

Contact:  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137

                 Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Exec Dir, 919-682-4700

                 Atty. Al McSurely, Communications, lawyers@mcsurely.com

                 Mrs. Daphne Holmes-Johnson, State Convention Planning, 919-682-4700

M E D I A    A D V I S O R Y

WE WILL...AND WE MUST FIGHT BACK TO SECURE AMERICA'S PROMISE

High Point is the 2011 NC NAACP State Convention Site

WHO:             Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President & National NAACP Board

                        Member; Ms. Oveter McLean, President, High Point NAACP Branch,

                        Allison Bice, High Point Convention and Visitors Bureau, and other   

                        NAACP leaders

WHAT:           68^th Annual NC NAACP State Convention

WHEN:          Thursday, August 25 at 2:00 pm

WHERE:        Best Western PLUS Hotel, 135 South Main Street, High Point, NC

State NAACP leadership along with the local branch president and representatives of the High Point Convention and Visitors Bureau will announce that the 68th Annual NC NAACP State Convention is coming to the City of High Point, October 13 through 15.  Both national and state civil rights, religious, legal and political grassroots leaders will keynote, present and/or attend this annual gathering of the largest state NAACP conference in the South, the second largest in the nation.   

In the face of frontal attacks on civil rights, voting rights and the poor in our state, the convention will address Education, Economic Development, Health, Criminal Justice, Redistricting, GOTV (Get Out the Vote) and Voter Education, Registration and Protection over a three-day period.  Pre-convention events include a financial literacy session and the 5th Annual Romallus Murphy Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar for lawyers, judges, and other legal practitioners.  These major issues will be focal points along with a strategic response to the regressive politics in our state. 

The news conference will also discuss other activities that will include education on critical issues affecting African-Americans and other minorities and skill-building coupled with leadership development in an inter-generational context.

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