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NAACP to host Black History Program Sunday
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The Liberty County branch of the NAACP invite the community to its Black History Program at 4 p.m. Sunday at Beach Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Highway 17 North, Midway.

The NAACP asks that each church send at least one representative.
The theme is “The Great Migration: The African-American Movement.” The featured speaker is James “Major” Woodall, the president of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP’s Youth and College Division.

For more information, call 912-408-2278 or go to www.facebook.com/LibertyNAACP.

Woodall will graduate in May from Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in religious studies. He also is a five-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve, serving in the field of military intelligence. Upon graduating from Georgia Southern, he plans to attend law school in the metro Atlanta area and pursue a career in both litigation and public service.

Woodall is a Silver Life Member of the NAACP and has experience in leading in the the civil-rights organization and other social justice organizations. He was the president of the Georgia Southern collegiate chapter of NAACP in 2014-15, as well as the founding president of the Southern Activists organization on his university’s campus.

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