The program is entitled “Honoring the Legacy: Remember! Celebrate! Act!” and will be presented at 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 17, at the Logan Street Baptist Church.
Joanne Jaeger Thomblin, president of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, will speak as the NAACP branch and Southern celebrates an parternship that has lasted more than a decade to insure the success of this annual program as well as others during Black History Month.
Keynote speakers for the event will be Joseph Bunday and Karen Vuranch, who will present the dramatization “A Centennial Tribute to the NAACP.”
The program will feature impersonations of civil rights leaders Mary White Ovington, James Weldon Johnson, Mordecia Johnson and Pearl S. Buck.
The youth will present a special tribute to Dr. King. The annual offering for the scholarship fund of the local NAACP branch will be received at this program. Participating churches are asked to bring their contributions at this time.
In addition, the Williamson NAACP branch and Youth Council are joining the Huntington chapter of The Links Inc. asking the community to support the Toothbrush Campaign for Sierra Leone, Africa. The program is sponsored by Dr. Shari Clarke, vice president of multicultural affairs at Marshall University in collaboration with the AME Church.
The public is asked to bring toothbrushes which will be received at the program and forwarded to Marshall.
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