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Alton Branch NAACP seeks sponsors, ads for Freedom Fund Banquet
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Driving the Nashville Freedom Riders to Mississippi
While driving for Trailways, his family said one of his greatest accomplishments was driving in 1961 a group of Freedom Riders from A & I (Fisk) University in Nashville to Jackson, Mississippi. All drivers turned down the job except Ruth who was 23 at the time. Ruth was willing to aid in the cause for freedom and justice at all cost, his family said. In speaking later about his decision to transport the student activists, he said he made the decision that “if they were going to die, I was going to die with them.” This trip was a one-time roundtrip for him made during the height of the movement.
A screengrab from the Norwalk NAACP website.
NORWALK, Conn. Norwalk NAACP members are expected to choose next month between challenger Jalin Sead and incumbent Brenda Penn-Williams in a delayed election for the local branch presidency.
Penn-Williams, who’s been president since 2016, said Wednesday that she doesn’t know why the national NAACP took over the local branch’s election, which is ordinarily held in November.
“Folks called to contest it,” she said.
Norwalk Branch NAACP President Brenda Penn-Williams in 2017, at the organization’s Freedom Fund Banquet. (File photo)
“I first want to thank all of the members for sticking through this unusual process,” said Sead, who unsuccessfully took on Penn-Williams in 2016, when then-President Darnell Crosland stepped down.