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Next General Membership Meeting

Wednesday, December 21st @ 6 pm

Welcome to the Stamford NAACP

Jack Bryant, President

Born and raised in Stamford Jack Bryant currently serves as President of the Stamford NAACP. A product of the New York Theological Seminary, he considers himself as a P.W.C which means “Potters Wheel Christian”. He continues to be molded by God.

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. From the ballot box to the classroom, the thousands of dedicated workers, organizers, leaders and members who make up the NAACP continue to fight for social justice for all Americans.

Jack started his work with the Stamford NAACP as the Youth Advisor for the Stamford NAACP Youth Council. During this time a partnership with the 100 Black Men, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Stamford Alumni Inc. and the Stamford NAACP Youth Council created an S.A.T. Preparation Course in conjunction with the Princeton Review. This partnership offered S.A.T. Prep Courses to students at a reduced cost.

Also during this time the Mighty Stamford NAACP Community Youth Choir was born. A group of 50 youth started singing at local churches and venues. Their talent was recognized by churches outside of Connecticut as the choir began traveling the East Coast ministering in song.

The members of the Stamford NAACP Youth Council also became involved in voter registration campaigns and volunteer missions. Jack left his role as Youth Advisor to become the First Vice President of the Stamford NAACP Adult Branch. He wasn’t there long as he was elevated to President within a year.

Under his term as President, the Stamford NAACP along with its mission as a “reactive” organization also became a “proactive” organization. The Law and You Workshop was born with the objective of improving the relationship between our youth in the community and the police department. Under the leadership of Jack Bryant the Stamford NAACP has become and still is a vital organization within the community it serves dealing with Education, Health, Housing and Criminal Justice issues.

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.

Martina Correa, sister of Troy Davis, has Died

Dear NAACP Family,

It is with sadness that I write to inform you that Martina Correa, sister of Troy Davis, has died. Martina, who many of you may have met at our 2009 convention (and other activist events), was the catalyst behind the campaign to save her brother for two decades. Those years overlap with the near death, and vibrant rebirth of the anti-death penalty movement in the US. She played a major role in reviving that part of our movement, as well. She literally traveled wherever people would listen to Troy's story and wherever fellow civil and human rights needed help defeating the death penalty. The Davis/Correa's are an NAACP family. Martina's mother, Virginia, was active in the sit-in movement of the 60s with the NAACP Youth and College Division. (She passed earlier this year. They say she went ahead of Troy to prepare to welcome her son.) Martina's sister, Kim Davis, was in CT last week helping President Esdaile and continuing the work against the death penalty Martina started. Martina's son, Dejuan, is also an NAACP member and has volunteered in recent summers at our conventions to help the Events Planning department, and the ACT-SO progam. He is a senior in high school and is college bound. Please say a prayer for the family tonight. Martina's passing, coming on the heels of his uncle's unjust execution and his grandmother's passing is a lot for Dejuan--and the entire family--to bear. Like so many of our soldiers who have passed recently, including Bishop Carr, Martina Correa used the time God gave her to do God's work. We are all blessed for the time she spent among us. Let's honor Troy Davis' memory and Martina's by ending the Death Penalty.

Yours In Service,

Ben Jealous

National NAACP Website: http://www.naacp.org/

State NAACP Website: http://www.naacp-ct.org/

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Stamford NAACP

P.O. Box 885

Stamford, CT 06904

Phone: 203-898-3223

E-mail address: secretary@stamfordnaacp.org