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Ga. NAACP starts year
Statesboro event focuses on education, health care rights
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Georgia State Conference NAACP President Dr. Francys Johnson, center, talks to a group of Georgia Southern University students about holding institutions accountable for diversity issues at the Russell Union Friday as part of the NAACP Georgia State Conference Quarterly Meeting in town this weekend.
NAACP leaders from all over Georgia, who met Friday and Saturday in Statesboro, made education and health care their focus.The NAACP Georgia State Conference brought its 2014 First Quarter Meeting and Civil Rights Institute to Statesboro, the adopted hometown of Dr. Francys Johnson, to signal the start of his two-year term as state conference president. NAACP officials said they expected about 300 leaders from NAACP units all over Georgia.But the number of people at Friday night’s convening session in the Averitt Center for the Arts’ Emma Kelly Theater appeared to exceed that. As keynote speaker, Dr. Nelson B. Rivers III, a South Carolina NAACP leader and minister, assailed last fall’s federal government shutdown as evil.“Back in October they shut down the government, an act of clear and unspeakable evil,” Rivers said.
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