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James L. Gill, 1st Vice President (Lansing) General Holiefield, 2nd Vice President (East Detroit) Lucille Flint-Johnson, 4th Vice President (Western Wayne County) Juanita M. Taylor, Secretary (Port Huron) Indira K. Pierce, Assistant Secretary (Detroit Central)
Amber Hudson, President (Eastern Michigan University) Stephen Hill, Vice President (Detroit Central Youth Council) Shantel Stephens, Secretary (Detroit Youth Council) Kyesha Lane, Assistant Secretary (Wayne State University) Curtis Walker, Treasurer (Central Michigan University) Indira Pierce, Youth Advisor (Detroit Central)
History of Michigan State Conference NAACP Presidents
Yvonne M. White, a Golden Heritage Life member, was the first woman elected president of the Michigan State Conference in its 65-year history. She is currently serving her fifth consecutive term and was elected as an at-large member to the National Board of Directors in February 2009 during the NAACP 100th Anniversary celebration in New York City. She has served as second, third and fourth vice president of the state conference, and is a former member of the Detroit Branch NAACP Executive Committee. Under her leadership, the state conference has gained recognition as one of the leading non-profit organizations in Michigan and has received numerous awards. In 2006, under her leadership, the state conference organized and led more than two thousand protestors who marched and rallied in the streets of the state Capitol (Lansing) in opposition to the so-called Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) on September 16 in a clear stand against the proposed anti-affirmative action legislation. The legislation, also known as Proposal 2, would put an end to race and gender-based affirmative action programs by all public institutions in the state of Michigan. The march and rally was held in conjunction with the 70th Annual Convention of the Michigan State Conference.
Carl L. Breeding, (Jackson) 1977 – 2001
Carl L. Breeding is the longest serving president of the Michigan State Conference NAACP. He taught algebra and general mathematics in the Jackson Public School System for 28 years and was first elected to the Jackson City Council in 1997. On December 31, 1999, he was selected by the Jackson Citizen Patriot Daily Newspaper as one of thirty most influential Jackson citizens of the century. He has served on the NAACP National Board of Directors and currently serves as a Special Contributions Fund Trustee. Mr. Breeding has volunteered his time and talents to the NAACP for more than 50 years.
James Watts, Esq., (Detroit) 1975 – 1977
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Carl L. Breeding, (Jackson) 1971 – 1975
Dr, Albert H. Wheeler (1915–1994) served from 1975 – 1977 as the first and still only black Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The University of Michigan’s first black tenured professor, Wheeler taught and researched in the microbiology and immunology department from 1952 – 1981 and was active in various roles at the school district, city and state levels. He also served several terms as president of the Ann Arbor Branch NAACP and was instrumental in the formation of Ann Arbor’s Human Rights Commission and the State of Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission.
Edgar B. Holt (1921–1984) first involvement in a civil rights organization was with the Southern Negro Youth Congress, which he had joined in 1941, and in 1946 and 1947 was one of that group’s vice-presidents. In 1946 while working at a construction site in Newport News, VA he was beaten after objecting to the white foreman’s comment that whites drank first. He left Virginia and finished schooling at Wilberforce University in 1947 and went to work as a social worker for the New York City Department of Public Welfare. He came to Flint, Michigan in 1950 where he served as president of the Flint Branch NAACP. He also served in World War II in the South Pacific and was employed by Buick Motor Division of General Motors Corporation. The 1960s, of course, was a critical era in African American history, and Edgar Holt was president of the largest state NAACP organization at probably its most significant period
Edward M. Turner, Esq., (Detroit) 1952 – 1964
Attorney Edward M. Turner was president of the Detroit Branch NAACP from 1949 - 1963. Under his leadership, the largest sit down dinner of its kind in the world, the Detroit Branch NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, was launched. It was held at the Latin Quarter and was a magnificent success. The keynote speaker was the Chief Counsel of the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall. As plans were being developed, a brutal racial killing took the life of Dr. Thomas Brewer, a prominent physician in Columbus, Georgia. Dr. Brewer’s immediate family and close friends were very active and well known in Detroit. As a result, a group of black physicians in Detroit came together to support the first dinner which raised approximately $30,000 and had over 600 guests in attendance. Today, the dinner serves over 10,000 guests and has some of the world’s most renowned speakers.
Dr. Jesse Leonidas Leach (1892–1981) was a prominent civic and civil rights leader from the 1920’s through the 1950’s. Leach, a surgeon, was Flint’s first black government official. He served on the Genesee County Board of Supervisors (now Commissioners) from 1927 to 1948.
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