Freedom Fund

THE  NAACP FREEDOM FUND (aka Fighting Fund for Freedom) began in 1953 (on a national  level) as a ten-year program to intensify efforts to complete the job of emancipation.

The slogan was “Free by 63”. Near the culmination of this effort, Medgar W. Evers, a heroic NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary, was killed by an assassin’s bullet. This prompted the NAACP Chairman Bishop Stephen Spottswood to pay tribute to this gallant warrior at  the NAACP Convention in Chicago, Illinois in July 1963. He did so by proclaiming that the NAACP Fighting Fund for Freedom will continue until the job of emancipating our people is complete. Today we continue the fight.  Be a champion for change.  Support the Henrico County NAACP!  Make a donation today.  https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freedomfund2025