From Ray Tampa, preisent of the St. Petersburg Branch of the NAACP: The St. Petersburg Branch of the NAACP announces a march in honor of Paris Whitehead, who was fatally shot and killed due to an unspeakable act of violence. Paricpants are asked to gather at the Bartlett Park Recreation Center (Frank H. Pierce Center), 2000 7th Street SOuth in St. Petersburg on April 25, 2009. The march will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m.
With blacks having finally become CEOs of national corporations, held some of the nation’s top posts in military, judicial and foreign affairs, the possibility of not one but three serious black contenders for the St. Petersburg Mayor’s race, and most recently the election of the first black President of the United States, who got more white votes than Al Gore or John Kerry. One might ask: What’s a civil rights leader to do? Newly elected president of St. Petersburg’s NAACP…
