The Columbus/Bartholomew County Area NAACP Branch membership will vote on new officers from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Voting can be done by text or email via a link emailed to each member or in person in the Ann King Conference Room of the Doug Otto Center, 1531 13th St. in Columbus.
The chapter was formed Dec. 8, 1968, and since then has worked on behalf of racial equality. And amid those efforts, its reach has stretched into area schools, workplaces, politics, neighborhoods, and elsewhere.
Columbus Mayor Jim Lienhoop once acknowledged that the local NAACP chapter is especially important in a community that once was home to civil rights leaders such as former Cummins Chairman J. Irwin Miller. The corporate leader regularly hired and promoted Blacks for leadership roles and, under his leadership of the then-powerful National Council of Churches, helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, a major event in the civil rights movement.
Information: the Facebook page for NAACP Columbus/Bartholomew.
