Bergen NAACP Goals
Our Bergen NAACP goals are to meet the needs of the Bergen County Community in any way necessary. We have done that by hosting numerous events during the pandemic. We hosted two Turkey Giveaways, five Backpack giveaways, one Personal Care Products Giveaway. Health wise we hosted six COVID-19 vaccinations, one Anti-Body Testing and one Personal Care Products Giveaways. We will continue to meet the needs of the community using the motto “Leading by Example.” Our Bergen County Branch also supports our National mission which is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
Bergen NAACP Goals
Our Bergen NAACP goals are to meet the needs of the Bergen County Community in any way necessary. We have done that by hosting numerous events during the pandemic. We hosted two Turkey Giveaways, five Backpack giveaways, one Personal Care Products Giveaway. Health wise we hosted six COVID-19 vaccinations, one Anti-Body Testing and one Personal Care Products Giveaways. We will continue to meet the needs of the community using the motto “Leading by Example.” Our Bergen County Branch also supports our National mission which is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
OUR HISTORY
Our legacy is our work and our activists who carry the civil rights torch forward. Since our founding in 1909, we have been, and continue to be, on the front lines of the fight for civil rights and social justice. In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the creation of the NAACP. Appalled at this rampant violence, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both the descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln’s birth.
MEET OUR TEAM
Courtnay Johnson Suffern
Rasheed Goins
Amy Jones Bullock
Political Action Chair
Adrienne Warrick
ACT-SO Chair
Michele D. Henry
Angela McCain
Katharine Glynn
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Keisha McLean
Audrey Hill
James Young, Esq
JoEllen Bostick
Beverly Johnson
Nathaniel Briggs
Deacon Robert Robinson
Carol Rauscher
Paul Aronsohn
Chondra Young
