A letter from A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, declining an invitation to participate in a Media NAACP panel program scheduled for Sunday November 4, 1979. He declined not out of disinterest but because he would need to disqualify himself whenever any NAACP cases came before his court.
Photographs of 4 pages of "The Crisis". Photograph on page 405 of "The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races," the official organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vo. 66, No. 7, August-September 1959. Caption reads: "Mrs. Elizabeth Oveide (L) of the Media, Pennsylvania, branch hands a check to her daughter Mrs. Mary Edwards, chairman of the branch life membership committee, to become first NAACP life member in the branch. Others pictured are James Austin, Clifford Moat, Percy O. Batipps, Sr., branch president, and Mrs. India Lee, whose personal donation made it possible for the branch to take out an NAACP life membership. [Photograph by] F. F. Zimmerman." See ED-004 for original print.
Philadelphia Inquirer article about Michael Motley's election as president of the Media Area Branch of the NAACP. The article discusses his focus on the education committee, work with the Rose Tree Media School District and their multi-cultural task force, and the creation of an NAACP scholarship after observing the lack of African American students being recognized by the school district.
Town Talk article and photograph of the NAACP Anniversary Dinner Dance. Caption: "(L to R) Bill Whitaker, Media Youth Council member, Gary Geers, Media Youth Council advisor, Juanita Edwards, Media Youth Council member, Dorothy Moat, Media NAACP President, and speaker Henry R. Smith, President of the Pennsylvania State Conference of [NAACP] Branches."
Left to right: [?], Bill Whitaker, Media Youth Council member; Gary Geers, Media Youth Council advisor; Juanita Edwards, Media Youth Council member; Dorothy Moat, Media NAACP President; and speaker Henry R. Smith, President of the Pennsylvania State Conference of [NAACP] Branches.
Left to right: Bill Whitaker, Media Youth Council member, Gary Geers, Media Youth Council advisor, Juanita Edwards, Media Youth Council member, Dorothy Moat, Media NAACP President, and speaker Henry R. Smith, President of the Pennsylvania State Conference of [NAACP] Branches.
Media, PA NAACP newsletter, September 1961. Articles by Mary Rosenthal, Editor; Philip H. Savage, Field Secretary on the convention; and Mary Edwards, Branch Secretary reporting on the National Convention In Philadelphia.
Article by John M. Roman about a cross burning in Nether Providence Township's Hepford Park. Michael Motley, President of the Media branch of the NAACP is quoted about Nether Providence not acting on becoming a zero tolerance for hate crimes community like Media and Rose Valley.
Letter to Reverend Linwood Parsons, Jr., Media Area Branch NAACP President from Mary Edwards announcing her resignation as secretary due to retiring to pursue a college education.
