Mark your calendar for the NAACP Middletown Branch’s Freedom Fund luncheon, Sunday afternoon September 28, 2025!
The NAACP Freedom Fund began in 1953 as a ten-year program to fund efforts toward full emancipation. In 1963, NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers was killed by an assassin, and NAACP Chairman Bishop Stephen Spottswood proclaimed the Freedom Fund would continue indefinitely, until the job of emancipating Black Americans is complete.
Today, Freedom Fund banquets are a way for NAACP branches nationwide to socialize, connect as a community, and raise money for programs empowering Black youth and civic leaders.
This is our first Freedom Fund event since the branch reactivated last year, so we’ve decided to keep the event modest and hold a luncheon instead of a banquet. We scheduled it for a Sunday afternoon so that churchgoers can join us after services conclude. We hope you’ll attend!
