EL PASO BRANCH NAACP ANNUAL FREEDOM FUND BANQUET
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contacts
Harold E. Howell, President
(915) 474-1247
El Paso Branch of the NAACP Annual Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet Former Director of Operation PUSH, Reverend Tyrone Crider, to deliver the Keynote Address
NAACP, El Paso, Texas — July 22, 2010 — The El Paso Branch of the NAACP will host its Annual Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet on Saturday, August 21, 2010. This year’s theme is “One Nation, One Dream”; the event will be held at the Wyndham El Paso Airport Hotel. The Social Gathering will commence at 6:00pm with the Banquet beginning promptly at 7:00pm. The branch will recognize prominent El Pasoans for their outstanding contributions to the community and award scholarships to deserving young students.
Special guest speaker is Reverend Tyrone Crider, Pastor, Author, Civil Rights and Community Activist and Former Director of Operation PUSH-People United to Save Humanity of Chicago, Illinois. Pastor Tyrone Crider, Sr. is a community organizer who was the leader for the National Push for Excellence Program, coordinating the youth voter registration campaign to elect Chicago’s First Black Mayor, Harold Washington and led the national voter registration campaign for the historic Jesse Jackson for President campaign in 1984. Rev. Crider has also served as the Director of Admissions and Associate Dean of Students of Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio and the National Executive Director of Operation PUSH. On November 3, 1991, Rev. Tyrone Crider organized New Hope Community Baptist Church.
Today, Rev. Crider serves as the Senior Pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church of Chicago and President of The National Pastors Network. The National Pastors Network’s goal is to organize Pastors and churches and build a network that will develop and offer programs in the community, through the churches. The development of the programs in the community through churches would lead to spiritual growth, educational advancement, economic development, political empowerment, social justice and increased health and wellness. He was appointed to the Board of directors of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) in April 2008 representing suburban Cook County. He serves on the Board’s Administrative and Mobility Limited committee’s. Rev. Crider has written a book where he shares his struggles and battles with Cancer. Rev. Crider is a graduate of Morehouse College and married to his lovely wife Regina Leslie. He is also a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
For more information about attending the Freedom Fund Banquet, please contact Harold Howell at (915) 474-1247. Cost for the event is $50.00 per guest or $500.00 per table of 10 guests. Individuals or organizations wishing to purchase tickets may do so by contacting Anna Mattersdorf at (915) 751-2108.
The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination. Founded February 12, 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based Civil Rights organization. The El Paso Branch is proud to be the oldest branch in the state of Texas.
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