Gloucester Virginia NAACP

Meeting Monday night

The Gloucester Branch of the NAACP will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Woodville Rosenwald School, 4310 George Washington Memorial Highway, Hayes. The meeting will also be able to be viewed on the Zoom platform. Contact gloucesternaacp@gmail.com to obtain the Zoom link, if needed. The featured speakers will be Maria Calloway, Acting County Administrator, and Deputy Administrators Regine Biggers. They will be sharing with the group about what is happening in Gloucester County government, a release stated. Following the meeting, members will have a cake to celebrate the birthday of the late Irene Morgan, known for her landmark win in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1946 outlawing segregation in interstate public transportation.

NAACP National Convention

The general theme of this years NAACP convention was The Fierce Urgency of Now.
To watch footage of the convention, click the link below.

2025 NAACP National Convention

Working on Resolutions Presented at the Convention

Delegates at the convention working together!

Left to Right: Dawn Moore, President NAACP Middlesex Branch and Virginia State Conference Regions 2 Vice President; Monica Hutchinson, President NAACP Henrico Branch; Reverand Cozy Baily, President NAACP Virginia State Conference and NAACP Region 7 Chair; Pamela Garner, Treasurer NAACP Gloucester Branch; Brenda Dixon, member NAACP Gloucester Branch; Edith Turner, President NAACP Mathews Branch;

Seated, Left to Right: Hazel Hickman, President NAACP Essex Branch; Natalie Johnson, Vice President NAACP Gloucester Branch.

Standing, Left to Right: Edith Turner, President NAACP Mathews Branch; Karen Jones, Virginia State Chair, Administrative Director; Monica Hutchinson, President NAACP Henrico Branch; Pamela Garner, Treasurer NAACP Gloucester Branch, Brenda Dixon, member NAACP Gloucester Branch

Seated L to R ; Dawn Moore, President NAACP Middlesex Branch and Virginia State Conference Regions 2 Vice President; Hazel Hickman, President NAACP Essex Branch; Natalie Johnson, Vice President NAACP Gloucester Branch

Abingdon Day NAACP Table

Left to right: Velma Binns, Delores Stokes and Natalie Johnson at the NAACP table set up at Abingdon Day, June 21st.

Oratorical Contest

Paula Ochoa-Zepeda: 1st place winner

Kaelyn Southworth: 2st place winner

David Washington: 3rd place winner

Winner of Opal Lee

Jolyn Wilson, pictured on the left, drawing a name for the winner of the book Opal Lee. Pictured in the photo on the right is Charlene Williamson, winner of the Opal Lee drawing.

Winners of Home Going and Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson was won by Davelin Gresham and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi was won by C. J. Haywood