NAACP Collier County Unit # 5117-B
Ensure equality of rights and eliminate racial discrimination.
It has been 54 years since Joan Trumpauer Mulholland sat in at a segregated lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi, but she still remembers the feeling of her soul leaving her body at the eruption of …
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LEE COUNTY - When Kiereek Seymour recently entered a Collier County courtroom, several rows of his supporters stood up in support. A bailiff quickly told them to sit down, but their presence and …
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Justice has never been blind when it comes to race in Florida. Blacks were first at the mercy of slave masters. Then came Jim Crow segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. Now, prejudice wears a black …
Naples, Fla. — The Naples National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, Naples Police and a defense lawyer spoke to the community …
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The Collier County branch of the NAACP, along with Collier County Sheriff’s Office and Naples Police Department, hosted a town-hall meeting to “help facilitate safe encounters between the community …
