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Convention Speakers

 
   

Prayer Breakfast/Memorial Service For Deceased NAACP Officers and Members

8:00A.M. – 10:00A.M.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

    Keynote Speaker
Reverend Al Sharpton
President, National Action Network
New York, New York

 

 


Opening
Public
Mass Meeting

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Sunday
07.12.09

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Presiding Officer Greetings
  Roslyn M. Brock
Chair, NAACP Convention Planning Committee
Vice Chair, NAACP National Board of Directors
Member, NAACP Special Contribution Fund
Elkridge, Maryland

Honorable Michael Bloomberg
Mayor, City of New York
New York, New York




 
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Hazel N. Dukes
President, NAACP New York State Conference 
Host, NAACP Centennial Convention
Member, NAACP National Board of Directors
New York, New York
   
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  Keynote Speaker  
  Julian Bond
Chairman, NAACP National Board of Directors
Washington, D.C
 
   
 

 

     

Religious Leaders Luncheon

 

1:00PM - 2:30PM
Monday
07.13.09

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Keynote Speaker
    Bishop John Richard Bryant
Senior Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago, Illinois
     


First Public Mass Meeting

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Monday
07.13.09

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  Greetings Greetings
Honorable David A. Paterson
Governor, State of New York
Albany, New York


Honorable Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
15th Congressional District
United States House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
 
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Greetings Greetings
Benjamin L. Hooks
Former Executive Director
(1977-1993)
Kweisi Mfume
Former President and CEO
(1996-2004)
   
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Greetings Greetings
Bruce S. Gordon
Former President and CEO
(2005-2007)
Dennis C. Hayes
Former President and CEO
(2004-2005 & 2007-2008)
     
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  Keynote Speaker
  Benjamin Todd Jealous
President and CEO, NAACP Baltimore, Maryland
   
 
       

 

Legislative Session

9:30am-12:30pm

Tuesday
07.14.09

    Greetings
  Honorable Michael SteeleChairman, Republican National Committee
Washington, D.C.
   
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  Greetings
  Marc Morial
President & CEO
National Urban League
New York, New York

 

 

National Membership Luncheon

(Tickets Are Sold Out)

 

Tuesday
07.14.09

    Keynote Speaker
  Honorable Greg Mathis
Judge, Lawyer and TV Personality
Member, NAACP Special Contribution Fund
Detroit, Michigan
 
   
 

 

 


Plenary Session

 

Wednesday
07.15.09

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  Greeting Spingarn Medalists  
Mr. Richard Trumka
Secretary-Treasurer,
AFL-CIO
Washington, D.C.
Andrew JacksonYoung
63rd Spingarn Medalist (1979)

 
     
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Spingarn Medalists Spingarn Medalists  
Benjamin L. Hooks
71st Spingarn Medalist (1986)
Jesse Jackson, Sr.
74th Spingarn Medalist (1989)
 
     
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder75th Spingarn Medalist (1990) General Colin Powell
76th Spingarn Medalist (1991)
     
 
Spingarn Medalists  
Vernon Jordan
86th Spingarn Medalist (2001)
 
   

Youth Freedom Fund Dinner

7:00P.M. – 11:00P.M.

Wednesday
07.15.09

    Keynote Speaker
Dr. Cornel West
Professor
Center for African American Studies Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
     
 

 

   


Final Plenary Session

(Registration Required)


Thursday
07.16.09

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    Keynote Speaker
  Honorable Barack Obama
44th President of the United States of America
 


Freedom Fund Dinner/Spingarn Awards Presentation

(Tickets Are Sold Out)

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    94th Spingarn Medalist/Keynote Speaker  
  Julian Bond
Chairman, NAACP
Washington, D.C.
 
   
 

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