Sun, March 16^th at 3:00 pm 

Please note the date change from Feb. 23 to March 16^th.  We changed the date to support UMKC’s Created Equal Film Series. This year’s black history month theme is, “Civil Rights in America.”  More details will be provided later.

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Excitement Expected for Ms. Barbara Arnwine as Keynote Speaker at the 46^th NAACP Freedom Fund Luncheon & Centennial Celebration on October 26^th

Ms. Barbara R. Arnwine, Esquire will be the keynote speaker at the NAACP Kansas City, Missouri Branch 46^th Freedom Fund Luncheon & Centennial Celebration on Saturday,October 26.  The silent auction is 11a.m. and the luncheon will begin at 12:00 noon at the Westin Crown Center Hotel and has a reputation as the premiere civil rights venue of the year.  Ms. Arnwine, president of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is well-known for her powerful oratory.  She will excite and interest everyone listening as she explains the Supreme Court’s recent attack on voting rights, talks about racial discrimination and the death penalty, and tells one and all how to stand up and protect your vote.

“The NAACP is extremely glad that we have been able to secure Ms. Arnwine as our speaker,” branch president and national board member Ms. Anita L.  Russell said.  She is the 2013 recipient of the coveted Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award presented by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Ms. Arnwine is a frequent analyst on CNN and MSNBC.  President Russell also states, “She is the difference between an ordinary fundraising event and a truly great Freedom Fund Luncheon.”

A graduate of Scripps College and Duke University School of Law, Ms. Arnwine has represented African descendants from the Americas when drafting provisions of United Nations programs, convened the third national conference of African American Women in the Law and led a delegation to the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women.  Her work helped lead to passage of the 1991 Civil Rights Act. The Lawyers Committee, of which she is president, has created a famous “Map of Shame” that highlights states’ proposals to disenfranchise and threaten the vote of minorities, students, low-income, disabled and elderly persons.

Ms. Arnwine is a prominent leader of Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition.  The coalition hosted 38 call centers in the 2012 election, and has 5,300 trained legal volunteers and 2,300 grassroots volunteers in 22 states and 80 voting jurisdictions.

As part of the 50^th anniversary celebrations this past August, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights held a special forum on the “The Unjust Relationship Between Race and the Criminal Justice System,” moderated by Ms. Arnwine.  Everyone attending the luncheon should expect an outstanding event.

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Medgar Wiley Evers
July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963

Remembering Medgar W. Evers
….His Life and Legacy on Voting Rights

When: Thursday, June 13 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Where:  Bruce R. Watkins Cultural  Heritage Center
3700 Blue Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri

Free and Open to the Public 
Refreshments will be served

Hear about Medgar W. Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary for Mississippi, assassinated by a white supremacist at an early age, and his pioneering fight for a democratic society and voting rights for all the descendants of slaves.  Learn how to restore your voting rights, even if you have temporarily lost them as a result of a conviction.  Register to vote and/or update your address.  Join the NAACP. Remember that all of us today must commemorate all the martyrs of the freedom movement.

 Presenters will be:

·       Ms. Samara Winbush, a 2013 graduate of UMKC law school with a B.A. from Carleton College in Minnesota.  She is an avid protector of voting rights for all

·       Rep. Lloyd Daniel, an educator, poet and advocate. A former Missouri state representative he has served as an instructor at UMKC and Penn Valley Community College

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Electrical Workers Minority Caucus
of Greater Kansas City Area IBEW 124
and NAACP of Kansas City, MO
with
KC Building Trades
KC Power & Light
KCMO Parks and Recreation Department
Full Employment Council
Builders Association
KC Labor Council

present

2^nd Skilled Trades Community Outreach Forum
March 23, 2013
10:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.

Shelter House #1/Bandstand at Swope Park
Voter registration at Southeast Community Center, 4201 E. 63^rd Street
Food and Beverages served

Introduction, Information and Applications on entry requirements
for each individual trade and other labor jobs provided for:

Electrical #124  Laborers #264  Boilermakers #83  Iron Workers #10
Operating Engineers #101  Electrical #412  Plumbers #8  Teamsters #541  Glaziers #558
Plasterers-Cement Masons #518  Electrical #1613  Sheet Metal #2  Carpenters D.C
Floorlayers #1179  KC Firefighters #42  Electrical #1464  Roofers #20  Sprinklerfitters #314
K.C.P.L.  Elevator Constructors #12  Electrical #53  Painters D.C.3  Bricklayers #15  Machinists #778
Asbestos Workers #27  Railroad #866  Pipefitters #533  CLUW  Millwrights #1529
Heavy Construction Laborers #663  Railroad #1832

All applicants must be 18 and over, men and women. Veterans:  Helmets to Hardhats

Theme: Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge
www.ibewlocal124.org

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Free and Open to the Public

NAACP Black History Program to Discuss
Constitutional Issues Relevant to All Americans

Award to be given to Dr. Julia H. Hill for
more than 60 years of service to the civil rights movement 

 When: Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.
 Where:  Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center
 3700 Blue Parkway Kansas City, Missouri

 The NAACP Kansas City, Missouri Branch Black History Program, “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality,” will discuss the Reconstruction-era new birth of freedom constitutional amendments ratified after the Civil War.  They ended slavery, promised equality before the law and citizenship for all Americans born here, and promised the franchise to all men.  A panel discussion will explore the gap between the promise and the practice, as well as note the most recent attacks on these rights.

 Panelists will be:

 Dr. Delia C. Gillis, Professor of History and Director for the Center for Africana Studies at University of Central Missouri

Dr. Clarence Lang, associate professor of African and African-American Studies at Kansas Univ.

Mr. Lyle Gibson, history instructor at Penn Valley Community College

Ms. Jasmine Pasley, branch assistant secretary and Region IV Adult Representative National Youth Work Committee will be moderating the panel

 A special presentation will be made, honoring Dr. Julia H. Hill for her more than six decades of service to the civil rights movement.  She organized picket lines, served as NAACP local branch president and was a well-known community leader who made a difference in many lives.  She is near and dear to the NAACP’s heart. 

 Please make note of this event and include in your calendar and announcements.

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