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Legal Redress Committee: J. Kenyatta Riley (Chairman)
This Committee assists individuals with complaints in employment, housing, and those encountering difficulty in receiving various benefits. In addition, the committee seeks legal settlements on behalf of the NAACP.
Presently, the Committee is assisting the former City of Milwaukee Police Chief Arthur Jones with an appeal in the lawsuit regarding allegations that he failed to promote senior white police officers.
The Legal Redress Committee continues to meet with individuals either at the Branch Office and/or at individual law offices.
Youth Council: Beverly Williams; Youth Advisor
The youth council meets every 3rd Saturday of each month (11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.).
Adults who assist the youth include Ms. Judy Laing, Marcella Riley, Allen Davis, Mitchell Avant , NAACP branch President Jerry Ann Hamilton and Wendell Harris.
Officers are:
Gerron Perkins
NAACP Youth Council President
Taylor Hamilton
NAACP Youth Council Vice President
Religious Affairs Committee: Reverend Roosevelt Savage, Sr. (Chairman)
This committee coordinates activities with area churches. During 2005, the committee coordinated the following at the NAACP 96th Annual Convention: three Late Night Worship Services, the Gospel Extravaganza, and arrangements for Invocators and Benedictors throughout the convention. The committee has seven members and is looking for additional members.
Labor and Industry Committee: John H. Riley (Chair)
The Labor and Industry Committee gives information, direction, and advice to many individuals that contact the NAACP daily. Many of the complaints are related to job discrimination in the work place which includes: minorities being denied promotions, harrassment, and unlawful or unfair terminations. Committee members meet with employers and employees to help resolve problems, escort individuals to hearings when they are denied unemployment compensation, and accompany people to E.E.O.C. hearings.
The committee has been quite successful in helping people to get their jobs back, obtain a better work environment, and elevated employer's attention to the necessity for sensitivity training programs.
A present initiative is to get statistics from the bureau of Apprenticeship Standards to document how few minorities are hired as Apprentices in Milwaukee. There is now a report available in cooperation with UWM Manpower and Training institute and the NAACP.
Members of the Committee include: Ruth Zubrenzky, Al Lambert, Elmer Anderson, and Fred Gordon.
Membership Committee: Marsha Thomas, Chairperson ;Rudene Robinson, Co-Chair
The membership committee is responsible for ongoing membership solicitation activities, and helping get new members involved in committees. In 2005, in conjunction with the Blue Ribbon Convention Membership Committee, outreach efforts were conducted at churches, sororities, and other community organizations.
Letter from the Life Membership Committee
Dear NAACP Members:
We would like to encourage our annual/regular membership to become Silver Life members. Paid Silver Life members can move to the next level which is Gold Life. The NAACP needs you more now than ever. The principal objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all people. Gifts and contributions are the blood-line of the organization. Due to the rising cost of living, it becomes more costly to operate efficiently. We depend on our members’ generosity to insure the NAACP's independence. We depend on you to help keep the flames of freedom burning bright! Remember, as long as Black Milwaukeeans are denied an equal education, fair housing or suffer job discrimination, the NAACP will be there to advocate for their civil rights.
NAACP Decreasing the Digital Divide Project: Linda A. Leaf, Project Director
The Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP, in conjunction with Manpower, Inc., has launched a program to help increase information technology literacy.
The Decreasing Digital Divide (DDD) project commits to assisting anyone who wants to learn computing technology to have access to the resources, training and support system necessary to support this ambition.
Once enrolled in the program, DDD participants are given the necessary codes to access the Manpower online training site. Participants choose their areas of learning; word processing; spreadsheet; IT certifications; etc. Their objective may be to acquire the recognized credentials necessary to compete for employment or promotion, or just to be personally proficient in this high tech twenty- first century.
On an individual basis, each participant will be helped to pursue his/her learning objectives mainly through email and telephone based distance learning. What is distance learning? It is being self-taught, and individuals are encouraged to learn on their own time and at their own pace. There is structure, guidance, feedback, and problem solving.
Beginning February, 2006, the DDD project will be enrolling new participants. Those interested should contact Linda Leaf at leaflin2@naspa.net or 414-444-3143.
Report from James Brown, Chair Veterans Affairs
This committee is very busy with the Veterans, and has many achievements. Chairman Brown assisted some of the Veterans in getting their disability started. He was successful in helping some of the veterans find permanent housing. He continually encouraged National Black Veterans to continue to keep a close partnership with the NAACP. Chairman Brown is also working closely with Nursing Homes so that Veterans will have their medical needs meet; with items such as wheel chairs and other needed medical devices. A current focus is an out- reach program for Veterans returning from service.
Education Committee
This committee focuses on issues such as the "No Child Left Behind Law, and how it has been underfunded during most of its time frame. This committee also works with the Milwaukee Public School system (MPS) on the "Small School Initiative"...a program to break up large traditional high schools into smaller schools consisting of three to four hundred students. The Education Committee believes that this initiative is a positive step in decreasing the achievement gap between minorities and non-minorities. Members of this committee include Wendell Harris (Chairperson), Rosie Caradine-Lewis, Donna Jones Jimenez, and Ceola Mayberry.
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