Daily News | NAACP leaders promise impactful 113th National Convention in Atlantic City in July
ATLANTIC CITY — The theme will be “This is Power.” And the setting will be Atlantic City in July.
He dismissed any idea that the historic NAACP is in competition with the Black Lives Matter movement. The history of those two prior conventions in Atlantic City was in the air on Thursday: 1964, when the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party protested the lack of Black representation in the state delegation. It was in the same Boardwalk Hall where Fannie Lou Hamer famously told the credentials committee, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
At a fraught time in the nation’s history, leaders of the historic civil rights organization said the convention will bring people together to seek solutions to Black America’s most pressing issues: voting and reproductive rights, student debt, police reform, and environmental justice. “I’m going to tell you this as mayor,” said Mayor Marty Small Sr. “One thing Atlantic City knows how to do is party. You’re going to be pleasantly surprised. We’re going to set the tone for future NAACP conventions.”
Gov. Murphy, a former national board member of the NAACP, said the state was ready to highlight efforts “every day to create a state that embodies racial, social and economic justice.
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