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Branch History The East County Branch was started in 1955 as the Pittsburg Branch of the NAACP to fight for the interest of African-American people. In the early years of the branch, efforts were directed toward anti-lynching legislation, desegregation and discrimination, and political rights. The church played a pivotal role in making sure that the branch had a place to conduct meetings and manage day-to-day operations. Members spent countless hours working on hot issues and grievances: attending meetings, strategizing solutions, and mobilizing people to stand against brutality and unjust arrest, and education and housing policies considered unfavorable to the African-American community.
The following people had provided leadership, guidance, and vision to the branch while they were presidents of the branch.
| Herbert White |
S.G. Mims |
Lester Mims |
Taylor Davis |
| Lonnie Kelly |
Charles Spears |
George Ealy |
Queenie Newkirk |
| Moses Coleman |
Fannie Lawson |
Wifred J. Scott |
Darnell Turner |
| Roger Henry |
Curlie Jackson |
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The NAACP is the nation’s most feared, most respected, most revered, most trusted, and most effective rights organization in this country. Its strength has always been in its members, in its network of 1700 branches across the country, and in its ability to tap into the creativity and resiliency of the African-American people to create programs that works. The East County Branch salutes the NAACP on its 100th anniversary! |