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I'm celebrating my 100th birthday today!
I've been a proud NAACP member since 1937 and an employee since 1954. But my commitment began even earlier: at age nine, I was proudly selling subscriptions to The Crisis, the official publication of the NAACP.
This work is personal to me because on Christmas Eve of 1939, three years after my parents chartered the local NAACP branch in Brownsville, Tennessee, our home was burned to the ground in an act of racist retaliation.
That means I've spent nearly nine decades fighting side by side with the NAACP in the pursuit of justice. In that time, we’ve challenged segregation, racial violence, attacks on voting rights, access to equal education, and more.
One thing I've learned is this: The shape of the battles may change. The mission does not.
Today, NAACP attorneys are challenging discriminatory redistricting, fighting efforts to restrict mail-in voting, defending immigrant communities, and standing up for families facing environmental injustice.
These cases may look different than the ones I saw decades ago, but they ask the same fundamental question: Will justice belong to everyone or only to the powerful?
NAACP has answered that question for more than a century. We answer it by showing up. We answer it in our communities. And we answer it in the courtroom.
That's only possible because people like you have stood with us year after year!
Progress has never come from one election, one lawsuit, or one moment. It comes from people who refuse to give up and who continue investing in the fight, even when the road ahead is difficult.
Today, as we approach our End-of-Quarter deadline, every donation is being matched dollar for dollar until we reach our $150,000 goal.
For many years, I worked with our Foundation Board - Artis. If you've ever wondered whether your support makes a difference, I can tell you from experience: It does.
I've seen what sustained commitment can accomplish over the course of a lifetime. I've seen barriers fall, laws change, and generations rise because ordinary people chose to stand together.
Now I'm asking you to help write the next chapter.
Please make your 2X-matched gift before our End-of-Quarter deadline. Together, we'll ensure the NAACP has the strength to keep fighting—for our rights, our communities, and the generations still to come.
Thank you for staying in the fight with me,
Mildred Bond Roxborough
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