Bay City’s NAACP branch celebrates over a century of existence in a predominantly white county
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
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BAY CITY, MI - Bay County may be mostly white given its demographics, but the county is also home to a long standing civil rights group thanks to the area’s background in the lumber and shipbuilding industry.
According to the United States Census Bureau, those of Black or African American heritage make up only 1.8% of Bay County’s population. Meanwhile, Bay County is 94.6% white. But Bay City National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branch President Darold Newton explained that the organization has had an over 100-year-old presence in the area.