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NAACP youth council celebrates local educators By MoHAMMAD RAFIQ mrafiq@liherald.com
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The NAACP Freeport-Roosevelt Youth Council members celebrated what was called a successful Black History Month event honoring educators. Youth Council Adviser Allois Douse, left, Victoria James, member, Lauryn Nicholas, member, Anisah Brown, member, Haniyyah Myricks, president, Ethan Patterson, treasurer Amhari Vassell, secretary and Jordyn Perry, first vice-president.
The NAACP Freeport-Roosevelt Youth Council hosted a vibrant and moving Black History Month celebration on Saturday, honoring teachers, community educators and mentors who have made a lasting impact on young people. The event, themed “Celebrating the Educators of Long Island,” was held from 1 to 3 p.m. at Choice for All, 55 Mansfield Ave. in Roosevelt. Choice for All is a registered charity, with its mission to connect children and families across Long Island to resources, services and opportunities so that they can reach their fullest potential. “This was a great event, I have to tell you,” Allois Douse, the youth council’s advisor, said. “Everything was done by the youth. They organized it from top to bottom … I mean they did everything.” The celebration, organized entirely by the council’s executive committee, featured speeches, poetry renditions, CoNTiNuED oN PAgE 11
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whether through activism, Moore was a determined stuteaching or sports. dent. “At an early age, I realized “I grew up in a village in that, you know, life … you have Emily Moore’s life, by all Freeport, in a Black communi- to figure out how you’re going accounts, is a testament to ty they had on Sunrise High- to win.” She credited her mother and resilience, activism and dedica- way,” Moore recalled. “We had a big yard and a big house — sister for instilling in her a tion to education and athletics. almost like a three-family strong work ethic and indepenMoore, 83, is a member of dence. “My mother told me to the Roosevelt School District house and a big yard.” She attended Cleveland Ave- do my best,” Moore said. “Try Board of Education. Born in Meadowbrook Hospital, now nue School, in Freeport, when my best. My sister: ‘Memorize Nassau University Medical it was exclusively Black. She the book. Don’t count on no Center, in 1941, she grew up in detailed how, in 1963, the school teacher to teach you.’” M o o re ’s e a rly a c t iv i s m Freeport, in a predominantly was closed down, and its stuBlack community, during an dents were inte g rated into began with a sit-in demonstration in a Freeport dime store. “I era of racial segregation. Her other schools. “I didn’t have one Black demonstrated at the five-and-10experiences as a child shaped Apply online at mptrg.com/heraldwrap or call 516.715.1280 her commitment to social jus- teacher from elementary school cent store, and I came home and told my parents,” she tice, and throughout her life, to high school,” she said. D e s p i t e t h e ch a l l e n g e s, recounted. “My father said, she has fought for equality,
‘Don’t do that again.’” Despite her father’s fears, Moore continued to speak out against racial injustice, eventually finding herself at the forefront of the civil rights movement while attending Morgan State University, in Baltimore. There she became an activist, taking part in anti-segregation demonstrations.
“I got arrested,” she said. “Was the first group that got arrested, 11 of us,” she said. “The whole school was at the court, cheering us on.” The day after she got out of jail, in 1963, she met Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who came to Baltimore to support the students after their efforts
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