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    58TH FREEDOM FUND CELEBRATION

    The Lansing Branch NAACP invites our friends and supporters to attend and help us celebrate this year’s 58th Freedom Fund Dinner and Awards Ceremony from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, 2024, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 925 S. Creyts Rd.

    This year’s keynote speaker is Heaster Wheeler, senior advisor to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Wheeler is also chair of the political education committee for the Detroit Branch NAACP.

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    FREEDOM FUND

    The Lansing Branch NAACP Freedom Fund represents the resources the Branch uses to support its mission to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.


    Freedom Fund Banquet History

    Freedom Fund began in 1953 (on a national level) as a ten-year program to intensify efforts to complete the job of emancipation. Near the culmination of this effort, Medgar W. Evers, a heroic NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary, was killed by an assassin’s bullet. This prompted the NAACP Chairman Bishop Stephen Spottswood to pay tribute to this gallant warrior at the NAACP Convention in Chicago, Illinois in July 1963. He did so by proclaiming that the NAACP Fighting Fund for Freedom will continue until the job of emancipating our people is complete.