NAACP
Youth & College
Chapter
NAACP Y&C Structure
NAACP Y&C National Office
Baltimore, MD
 National Director Stephanie L. Brown
• Currently on the Board of Director
 Shayla King
 Zephanii Smith
NAACP Y&C Region – 7 Regions
 Region 1 Chair Zephanii Smith
 California & Hawaii
NAACP Y&C State Conference
 California President Zephanii Smith
NAACP Y&C Chapters
Ventura County President Ka’sha Crawford
 Ventura County Executive Board Member

NAACP
Ventura County
Youth & College Executive Officers
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Ka’sha M. Crawford
Beth Shephard
Keeya D. Luney
President
1st Vice President
 Finance Committee
 Membership Committee
 Political Action Committee
 Youth & College Connect
2nd Vice President
 Community/Publicity Committee
 Community Coordinator
 Fundraiser
NAACP
Ventura County
Youth & College Executive Officers
Executive Officer
3rd Vice President
 Education
 Juvenile Justice
Treasurer
Asst. Treasurer
Secretary
Asst. Secretary
KJ Crawford
Ajia M, Montgomery
Jade M. Campbell
Chondra M. Ward
Chennaye Holloway
NAACP
Ventura County
Youth & College Executive Board
Executive Board
Carzie Carter
Justin Crawford
Kiana Gleason
Andrew Macias
Michael Lee
Executive Committee Chairs
Finance
Ajai M. Montgomery
Membership
Carzie Carter
Political Action
Carzie Carter
Communication/
Keeya Luney
Publicity
Fundraiser
Youth & College
Chennaye Holloway
Beth Shephard
Connect
Education
Juvenile Justice
Jade Campbell
KJ Crawford
Y&C Chapter Structure
The NAACP Youth & College Divisions are designed to create
specific agendas that address issues facing young people in our
community. Local units in the NAACP consist of Junior Youth
Councils, Youth Councils, High School Chapters and College
Chapters that serve as the ground troops in the struggle for
civil rights.
Within the Youth and College Division of Ventura County, the
Youth/College Council governing Executive committee and
members consists of the following:
Y&C Chapter Structure (Cont.)
JUNIOR COUNCILS - Membership: Any person under the age
of 13
Focus: Providing interactive and entertaining instruction on
the history of Africans in the Diaspora (specifically the NAACP and
the Civil Rights Movement). Basic leadership development and
community service are also key focus areas.
YOUTH COUNCILS - Membership: Any person under the age of 25
Focus: Providing and developing the skills necessary for leadership
and activism. Mobilization, community education, and youth
activities are essential focus areas of the Youth Council.
Y&C Chapter Structure (Cont.)
• HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTERS - Membership: Any person who is
enrolled as a student in a high school or comparable secondary
school.
•
Focus: Training and developing the skills necessary for leadership
and activism. Mobilization, community education, and youth
activities are essential focus areas of the Youth Council.
• COLLEGE CHAPTERS- Membership: Any person under the age of 25
and/or currently enrolled as a student at a college or University.
•
Focus: Training and define-tuning intellectual and leadership skills
manifest in an increased level of social and political activism.
NAACP Y&C
Mission & Objectives
• The NAACP believes strongly that future leaders must be
developed today, and such development is ongoing in the
Youth & College Division, created in 1936. Today there are
more than 30,000 young people representing 600 Youth
Councils, High School Chapters and College Chapters actively
involved in the fight for civil rights. The NAACP has one of the
largest organized groups of young people of any secular
organization in the country.
Mission
• The mission of the NAACP Youth & College Division
shall be to inform youth of the problems affecting
African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities;
to advance the economic, education, social and
political status of African Americans and other racial
and ethnic minorities and their harmonious
cooperation with other peoples; to stimulate an
appreciation of the African Diaspora and other people
of color’s contribution to civilization; and to develop an
intelligent, militant effective youth leadership.
Vision & Objectives
• Vision
Developing a New Generation of Leadership
• Objectives
• Leadership and Activism Training
• Proactive Political and Community Activism
• Recruitment of new Youth Units
• Maintenance of existing Youth Units
• Public awareness of the necessity of youth
involvement
• To be the leaders and trendsetters in the area of
youth leadership and civil rights training
Current Issues
• Students have always been at the forefront of most major
social movements. From the Civil Rights Movement of the
60’s to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980’s, student
activism has forced society and the world to change. NAACP
Youth Councils, High School Chapters and College Chapters all
across America are engaged in social justice activism
addressing issues at the local, state and national level. The
primary focus issues for the Division are the following:
• Economic Development
• Education
• Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Voter Empowerment
History
NAACP Youth & College Division
• In 1935, during the St. Louis Convention, a fiery address was made
by one of the youth delegates, Miss Juanita Jackson, to create a
department for youth.
• This spirit of solidarity among black youths was sparked by years of
racial discrimination, segregation, and mob violence. “Flesh and
blood and the breath of life must be added to the skeleton we have
constructed,” declared youth member, Edward A. Lawrence in an
article in the September, 1936 edition of The Crisis.
• The year was marked by an increasingly aggressive and efficient
level of activity within youth units, indicating not only intelligent
leadership and loyalty on the part of the members; but a laudable
spirit of cooperation among the young people.
The major national youth activities were mass meetings against
inequalities in public education and demonstrations against lynching
was evidenced in December, 1934 when Howard University
Students organized and picketed a national Conference in
Washington, DC when leaders refused to discuss lynching as a
national crime. This demonstration led to congress enacting the
Federal Anti-lynching Bill
NAACP Y&C New Era
2000-2005: “Renewed Youth Activism”
Beginning in 2000, the Youth & College Divisions ushered in a renewed spirit of
leadership and activism in the NAACP. Notable events during this period
included:
South Carolina Youth & College Division helped lead the largest march in the
south since the height of the civil rights movement, with over 100,000 people
participating in their King Day at the Dome mobilization in 2000.
In 2001, death threats against black students at Penn State prompted an
extended sit-in organized by the Penn State College Chapter and supported by
NAACP college units from Howard University.
In 2002, membership and leadership development within the Division were
on-going and expanding, as the Phoenix Project was created under the
leadership of Jeffery Johnson as a way to engage young people in juvenile
detention facilities.
NAACP Y&C New Era (Cont.)
The National Take Affirmative Action Day was created in 2002 as a vehicle for
young people to become engaged in the fight to protect this much needed
policy.
Youth units across the country mobilized in 2003 to call for the release of Marcus
Dixon - an 18 year old African American honor student in Rome, Georgia who
was convicted to ten years in prison for having consensual sex with a white
classmate who was just three months shy of her 16th birthday. As a result of the
Youth and College Division national efforts, under the direction of Brandon T.
Neal, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned Marcus Dixon's conviction.
The NAACP Youth & College Division condemned off-campus parties held by
predominately white fraternities at Clemson University and the University of
California-San Diego where students mocked African Americans and civil rights
icons in derogatory manners. As a result, the Division created the Campaign to
End Campus Racism in 2007.
NAACP Y&C Today
2006-2011: “The New Front Line”
Under the direction of Stefanie L. Brown, the Youth &
College Division continues to be one of the strongest and
most capable elements in the NAACP. Through the
implementation of the Division’s VOTE HARD youth civic
engagement campaign in 2008, over 50,000 young
People have been registered to vote. Additional
highlights during this time period include:
•Thousands of NAACP youth members from around the
nation rallied at the steps of the United States Supreme Court in advance of
the court’s decision on the Gratz v. Bollinger case, regarding the University of
Michigan’s undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy in 2006.
•In 2007, youth units mobilized from across the country to Jena, Louisiana to
march against the excessive punishment against six African American boys.
In the same year, the Georgia Youth & College Division helped lead a
national march in Atlanta, Georgia to keep the Voting Rights Act alive.
NAACP Y&C Today (Cont.)
On September 15, 2010 Mississippi State Youth & College Division mobilized
over a 1000 young people to the state capitol to speak out for the freedom of
the Scott Sisters.
In 2011, the North Carolina Youth & College Division mobilized thousands of
young people to the state capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina to address resegregation issues promoted by the Wake County School Board.
Since it was founded in 1909, the NAACP has provided and trained more leaders
for the black community than any other secular organization. Virtually every
black American leader, public and private, local and national, learned the spirit
of public service and the techniques of leadership through the NAACP. Roy
Wilkins, Rosa Parks, Vernon Jordan, Julian Bond, Andrew Young, Patricia Harris,
Thurgood Marshall, Ralph Bunche, Dr. Ronald Walters, and many others served
their apprenticeships in the Association’s youth units – including the NAACP
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Roslyn M. Brock and the President and CEO,
Benjamin Todd Jealous.
NAACP Y&C Today (Cont.)
Today there are over 600 NAACP Youth Councils, High School Chapters and
College Chapters actively involved in social justice advocacy by addressing local
issues as well as a national agenda made up of problems including: Education,
Economic Empowerment, Health, Juvenile Justice, and Civic Engagement. The
NAACP is the only major civil rights organization, which encourages young
people to participate fully in all aspects of its structure, including membership
on the National Board of Directors.
Under the direction of Stefanie L. Brown, the Youth & College Division
continues to be one of the strongest and most capable elements in the NAACP.
Through the implementation of the Division’s VOTE HARD youth civic
engagement campaign in 2008, over 50,000 young people have been registered
to vote.
Tea Party view of the NAACP
NAACP Fights
Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the
southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the
poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted
mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and
fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning
flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
NAACP Recent Events
Arrests in Central California Cross Burning
Police in Arroyo Grande say four white "transients" will be charged
in an incident that roiled a coastal community. Posted: July 23, 2011
"All of them," Anabali said, "are
covered with tattoos." Kahn, he
continued, "is the scariest
looking of the four and has
white supremacist markings."
"I think this gentleman is being
discriminated against and used
as a tool for blame of what's
wrong in this community," said
John Hatcher, president of the
Ventura County branch of the
NAACP.
It is 2011 and America has a Black president, but it is not an indication of progress in the
realm of race relations; quite the contrary. Having a Black man in the Oval Office has
brought out the vile disease of racism like never before, and it informs us that the White
Supremacist tendencies of America’s history are still as divisive and destructive as ever.
Ventura County Democratic Party official on his Twitter account last week in which he
wrote that some east county Republicans who testified at a hearing in Oxnard should
"just put your white hoods on already" do not represent the views of the county party,
Chairman Richard Carter said Wednesday. Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011
Troy Anthony Davis
The World will remember your Troy Davis 1968-2011
TROY DAVIS NAME WILL LIVE ON
NAACP
Youth & College
THEN………
NAACP
Youth & College
NOW
Civil Rights Leaders
NAACP
Ventura County Chapter
Leaders
John R. Hatcher III
Ventura County
President
Ka’sha M. Crawford
Ventura County
Y&C President
OUR FUTURE Y&C Executive Officers
Ka’sha Crawford ; Chondra Ward;
Beth Shephard ; Carzie Carter
From the Schools to the Courts
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