NAACP gets Haywood organizer
Haywood County’s fledging chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is getting a little help this summer.
“I see myself as a booster pack,” said Sam Tyson. “A little summer energy.”
New NAACP chapters spawned by protests against Raleigh legislation
Political backlash against the new conservative policies of state lawmakers has given rise to two local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Haywood and Jackson counties — the first such affiliates to be formed in the rural, predominantly white mountain counties since the NAACP’s creation about a century ago.