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The Detroit Association of Retired Personnel
(DARSP) presented its 2010 Negro History program at Westminster Church at the end of January. Dr. Naomi Ross chaired the program. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP, the program focused on one of its founders, Ida B. Wells. Ms. Wells was a working mother who lived from 186 to 1931. She was a journalist, feminist and
THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
April 7-13, 2010
Detroit Association of Retired Personnel presents Negro History program
civil rights activist, a newspaper owner, and a teach- er who attended Shaw University in Hally Spring, Miss.
She fought and exposed lynching as a strategy
used by southern Whites to eliminate political- ly active and prosperous African Americans, and condemned the lie of rape, which southern Whites used to justify violence against Blacks. Her crusade
against lynching was through a series of newspaper articles. Her anti-lynching campaign became inter- national in Great Britain in 1893 and 1894, after she tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynching in the United States.
Dr. Creed Judkins was the videographer for the program.
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EARLINE W. SPRINGER (left) and Patricia Foster.
DR. CREED JUDKINS (from left), Dr. Naomi Ross and Earline W. Springer.
LINDSEY LORGWIRE (left) and Sandy J. Love of the group the Love Connection.
LILLIAN SMITH and Erma Gaddis.
CHERYL A. HARVEY and Paul Aviews.
SHIRLEY CALDWELL and Charles S. Johnson Jr., of C.J.’s Cater- ing.
VALERIE PROCTOR (from left), Rosemary Clemmons and Ora Carter.
ELTEASER GLOVER and Juanita Alexander.
MARY FARMER (from left), Rosemary Clemmons, Valerie Proctor, Arvadia Howard, Gwendolyn McGhee, Theresa Lorio, Juanita Alexander, Alice Johnson.
DONA HORTON and Juanita Sanders.
DR. CREED JUDKINS (front) ran the slide projector.
DR. CREED JUDKINS (from left); Dr. Naomi Ross; director of MARSP District 26; Elaine Phillips; past president Theresa Lorio, President Dr. Yvonne Catching, insurance chair James Mitchell, Presi- dent-elect Elteaser Glover, recording secretary Lillian Smith, Earline W. Springer and Juanita Al- exander.
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