CA HI NAACP Legacy Hall of Fame 2023

DR. TOMMIE

DR. JOHN

DR TOMMIE SMITH DR JOHN CARLOS

Rick L. Callender, Esq.

President

President

Reverend Jethroe Moore II

Reverend Jethroe Moore II

1 t Vice President

1st Vice President

June 24, 2023

June 24, 2023

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Happy Juneteenth!

Alyssa Smith

Zephanii Smith Eisenstat

2nd Vice President

2nd Vice President

Dr Naomi Rainey Pierson

Naomi Rainey Pierson

2nd Vice President

3rd Vice President

LaJuana Bivens

LaJuana Bivens

Secretary/State Director

Secretary/State Director

Olivia Verrett

Ida M. Johnson

Assistant Secretary

Assistant Secretary

Ida M. Johnson

Olivia Verrett

2nd Assistant Secretary

2nd Assistant Secretary

Carolyn Veal-Hunter Treasurer

Carolyn Veal-Hunter

Treasurer

Darrell Goode

Satia Austin

Area Director Southwest

Area Director - Southeast

Satia Austin

Darrell Goode

Area Director Southeast

Area Director - Southwest

Odessa LeFrancois

Odessa LeFrancois

Area Director - Coastal

Area Director Coastal

Dave Smith

Jimmie Jackson

Area Director - North

Area Director North

On behalf of the NAACP California Hawaii State Conference I am honored to welcome you and celebrate the 11th Annual NAACP California Hawaii State Conference Legacy Hall of Fame Ceremony with you We are incredibly grateful to our branch es, sponsors and corporate par tners for their generous suppor t that has made this event possible. Thank you for your commitment to justice and invaluable contributions!

On behalf of the California Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP, I am honored to welcome you to the 10th Annual CA/HI NAACP Legacy Hall of Fame Ceremony. We are very excited to host you in-person this year, after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This evening, we bring together NAACP members and supporters to recognize an outstanding community leader who has fought tirelessly to advance civil rights. This year’s inductee is Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves California’s 43rd Congressional District, and is the most senior African American woman to serve in Congress. She is also the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee. We could not have a stronger and better member of Congress to induct into the CA/HI NAACP Legacy Hall of Fame.

This evening, we bring together NAACP members and suppor ters to recognize four outstanding community leaders who have dedicated their lives to advance civil rights not only in California but in the Nation. This year’s inductees, Dr. Tommie Smith, Dr. John Carlos, Dr. Kenneth Noel, and Dr. Harry Edward s are true civil rights leaders who made courageous decisions in the face of adversity that have inspired generations of new civil rights leaders to continue the fight for justice and equity We could not have a more powerful group to induct into the

NAACP CA/HI Legacy Hall of Fame

Our collective power is an unstoppable force, and the NAACP California Hawaii State Conference is ready to lead this charge with your suppor t. Tonight we celebrate and express our gratitude to our ci vil rights leaders across California and Hawaii who have made our communities a better place for all and also take time to acknowledge the accomplishments of those who deserve our recognition for suppor ting the principles of the NAACP.

My continued vision for the CA/HI NAACP is that we all work together - because together we are a force to be reckoned with. Tonight is our opportunity to celebrate and express our gratitude to those who have made California and Hawaii a better place for all, but we also come together as a community to acknowledge the accomplishments of those who deserve our recognition for supporting the principles of the NAACP.

Thank you for joining me to celebrate the dedication and contributions made by Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the fight for civil rights. With leaders like Congresswoman Waters fighting alongside the NAACP, we are truly making a difference.

Together, we are the CA/HI NAACP!

Regina Crawford

Regina K. Hatcher-Crawford

Area Director - Central

Area Director Central

Freddye Davis

Freddye Davis

Area Director - West

Area Director West

Alice A. Huffman, PhD

Alice A. Huffman, PhD

President Emeritus

President Emeritus

Yours in Fight,

Thank you for joining me to celebrate the dedication and historic contributions made by Dr Tommie Smith, Dr John Carlos, Dr Kenneth Noel and Dr Harry Edwards in the fight for civil rights With leaders like these fighting alongside the NAA CP, we are truly making a difference

Yours in Fight

Rick L. Callender, ESQ.

Rick L. Callender, ESQ. CA/HI NAACP President

Legacy Hall of Fame

2023Honor s

1968 Olympic Gold & Bronze Medalists

DR.TOMMIE SMITH DR.JOHN CARLOS

Legacy Hall of Fame

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM

SPONSOR RECEPTION - 5:30PM

LEGACY HALL OF FAME CEREMONY - 6:30 PM

Master of Ceremonies e Honorable Senator Roderick D. Wright (Ret.)

INVOCATION

Rev. Amos Brown, NAACP San Francisco Branch

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

Jackie and Friends

WELCOME REMARKS

CA/HI NAACP President, Rick L. Callender. ESQ.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF SPECIAL GUESTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SPONSORS

1967 Olympic Project for Human Rights

DR.HARRY EDWARDS

DR KENNETH NOEL

DINNER IS SERVED

INDUCTION CEREMONY

Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. Tommie Smith, Dr. John Carlos, Dr. Harry Edwards, Dr. Kenneth Noel

TRIBUTE TO LEGACY HONOREES

Jackie and Friends

CLOSING REMARKS

BENEDICTION

Rev. Amos Brown, NAACP San Francisco Branch

MEET THE Honor s

1968 Olympic Gold & Bronze Medalists

DR.JOHN CARLOS

1967 Olympic Project for Human Rights

Tommie Smith began life quietly, born to Richard and Dora Smith on June 6, 1944 in Clarksville, Texas the seventh of 12 children. Tommie Smith survived a life-threatening bout of pneumonia as an infant which allowed him to carry out the work that God intended for him. Today, his historic achievements make him a nationally and internationally distinguished figure in African American history. He is the only man in the history of track and field to hold eleven world records simultaneously.

During the historical 19th Olympiad in Mexico City in the summer of 1968, Tommie Smith broke the world and Olympic record with a time of 19.83 seconds and became the 200-meter Olympic champion. As the Star-Spangled Banner played in the wind at the Mexico City Summer Olympic Games, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the victory podium, draped with their Olympic medals, each raised a clinched fist covered in a black leather glove in a historic stand for black power, liberation, and solidarity.

Tommie Smith’s courageous leadership, talent, and activism have earned him well-deserved acclaim and awards. Some highlights are included here: On November 1, 2019, he was inducted into the United States Olympic & Paralympic Legend Hall of Fame; featured in Sports Illustrated, Ebony, Time, and Newsweek

Tommie served as a faculty member at Santa Monica College, Santa Monica California for 27 years, teaching and coaching and serving on academic committees.

who was born on June 5, 1945, in Harlem, New York City. He competed in the 1968 Mexico, representing the United States in who won the gold, and Peter Norman of Australia, who won the silver.

Carlos is best known for his iconic protest on the medal podium during the medal ceremony. Along with Smith, he raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the U.S. national anthem as a symbol of the Black Power movement and the struggle for civil rights in America. The gesture created a major controversy, and both athletes were stripped of their medals and expelled from the Olympic Village.

After the Olympics, Carlos continued to be involved in social and political activism. He worked as a coach and teacher and later became a public speaker and advocate for social justice issues. In 2008, he was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards for his iconic protest at the 1968 Olympics. Carlos remains an important figure in American sports and civil rights history, and his actions on the medal podium continue to inspire activists and athletes around the world.

Harry Edwards was born in St. Louis but grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois. He graduated from San Jose State University from which he graduated in 1964 with high honors. He subsequently was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a University Fellowship to Cornell University where he completed a M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology. He was on the faculty of California at Berkeley from 1970 – 2001 and currently is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology.

Dr. Edwards also has a long and storied history of activism focused upon developments at the interface of sport, race, and society. He ultimately called for a Black athlete boycott of the United States 1968 Olympic team in large part to dramatize the racial inequities and barriers confronting Blacks in sport and society. The movement resulted in demonstrations by Black athletes across the nation and ultimately at the Mexico City games – a movement commemorated by a 24-foot high statue on the campus at San Jose State University

Years later, Dr. Edwards was to become a consultant on issues of diversity for all three major sports.

Over his career, Harry Edwards has persisted in efforts to compel the sports establishment to confront and to effectively address issues pertaining to diversity and equal opportunity within its ranks. Edwards, a scholar-activist, has been a consultant with producers of sports related programs for numerous television and film productions in the United States and abroad over the last 50 years.

Ken is a longtime social activist and activism advocate, who recently delivered a keynote speech at San Jose State University’s annual Smith/Carlos Legacy Week Celebration and a `gathering of Regional Special Olympics Organization administrators and staff. His time in the last two years, when not editing his dual autobiography, has been devoted to advising and securing vital oral history contributors for San Jose State’s History of Civil Rights and Campus Protest project.

As Co-Organizer of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (1967 – 1969), Ken has served as the main conduit between the OPHR’s principal strategist and its principal actors for 56 years. Ken is characterized as a most candid and honest speaker, who is inspiring, brutally real, heartbreaking, and uplifting all at the same time.

A thrilled observer of Ken in action remarked as follows:

“I just finished watching your talk; it was so honest, thoughtfully constructed, and really powerfully delivered. You taught us so much about your role in shaping the protest movement at SJS in the 1960s, the Olympic Project for Human Rights and UBSA, and also explained how and why (without saying so directly) mentoring students like Aquila, John, Tommie, etc., and leading social justice campaigns became part of your life's work I am very glad that you decided to train as hard at academics as athletics! You and Dr. Edwards remain intellectual champions with such a lasting impact on the field of athlete activism, which continues to radically transform student lives.”

DR HARRY EDWARDS

DR. TOMMIE SMITH

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

June 24, 2023

11th Annual Legacy Hall of Fame Ceremony

NAACP California Hawaii State Conference

On behalf of the state of California, it is my pleasure to welcome you all to the NAACP California Hawaii State Conference’s 11th Annual Legacy Hall of Fame Ceremony.

Tonight, we honor the outstanding community leaders who have left a legacy of advancing civil rights and who have tirelessly dedicated their lives to fighting for justice for all. This year’s Hall of Fame inductees include 1968 Olympians Dr. John Carlos and Dr. Tommie Smith, as well as co-organizers of the 1967 Olympic Project for Human Rights, Dr. Harry Edwards and Dr. Kenneth Noel. The tremendous impact of these inspiring leaders serves as a source of pride and inspiration around the world, and their trailblazing work shows us how we can continue to press forward towards racial equity and social justice with even greater vision and resilience.

Please accept my best wishes for a wonderful evening as we celebrate these hard-fought victories and look to a future of greater equity and justice for all.

Sincerely,

Gavin Newsom Governor of California

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CAROLYN VEAL HUNTER Treasurer

LAJUANA BIVENS Secretary & State Director

IDA JOHNSON Assistant Secretary

OLIVIA VERRETT 2nd Assistant Secretary

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ANNA HOPKINS Communications Chair

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1968 Olympic Medalists Dr. Tommie Smith & Dr. John Carlos

1967 Olympic Project of Human Rights Co-Organizers

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2013 HONOREE

Posthumously The Honorable Mervyn Dymally

Mervyn Malcolm Dymally was an American politician from California. He served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Dymally returned to politics a decade later to serve in the California State Assembly.

Dymally was the first Trinidadian to serve California as State Senator and Lieutenant Governor. He was one of the first persons of Dougla (mixed African and Indian) origin to serve in the U.S. Congress.

In 1974, he and George L. Brown became among the first African Americans elected to statewide office since Oscar Dunn did so during Reconstruction. Edward W. Brooke, III had been elected Attorney General of Massachusetts in 1962 and 1964, and was elected to the United States Senate from Massachusetts in 1966 and 1972. Dymally was the second African-American to hold statewide office in California, following Wilson Riles who served as California Superintendent of Public Instruction starting in 1971.

Dymally was vice-president of the Pacific Century Institute, a non-profit organization that fosters education and policy dialogue for nations of the Pacific Rim.

Mervyn Dymally passed away on October 7, 2012.

PAST LEGACY AWARD RECIPIENTS

ONOREE

2015 HONOREE

The Honorable Willie L. Brown

Moore was first elected to the state legislature in 1978 and served for 16 years until 1994, representing Californiaʼs 49th district (redistricted and renumbered in 1990 as the 47th district), which currently includes Long Beach, Catalina Island and parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties.

While serving in the Assembly, Moore introduced over 400 bills that were signed into law. She also served as Majority Whip and was a member of a number of influential committees, including the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee.

Moore served on numerous boards. Among them were the California State Bar Board of Trustees, the California Small Business Association board and the national board of the NAACP. She was also First Vice President of the California State Conference of the NAACP, Vice Chair of the California Utility Diversity Council and Chairwoman of the California Black Business Association.

For her work in California and across the United States, Moore won numerous national and local awards, including honors from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Willie Brown, in full Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., (born March 20, 1934, Mineola, Texas, U.S.), American politician who was the first African American speaker of the California State Assembly, the longest-serving speaker of that body (1980–95), and mayor of San Francisco (1996–2004).

Brown was born into poverty in rural Texas and moved to San Francisco after graduating from high school. In 1955 he received a bachelorʼs degree in liberal studies from San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University), and three years later he earned a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law (1958). Brown established a private legal practice and became active in politics. In 1964 he won election to the California State Assembly. Appointed to chair the Legislative Representation Committee, he used the post to enhance his position in the legislature and to facilitate his rise to power. In 1969 he became the Democratic Party whip, and in 1974 he made an unsuccessful bid to become speaker of the State Assembly. In 1980, winning the support of 28 Republicans and 23 Democrats, he was elected speaker, a post he held until 1995.

A flamboyant figure, Brown was a prime target of the successful effort in 1990 in California to limit state legislators to three terms. Forced to retire from the State Assembly, he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995 and was reelected in 1999. After leaving office in 2004, Brown briefly co hosted (2006) a radio talk show and established an institute on public service and politics. In 2008 he published Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times, an autobiography.

March 4, 1966) is an American former professional basketball politician who served as the 55th Mayor of Sacramento, California

husband of educator Michelle Rhee. Elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, Johnson is the first African American to serve as Mayor of Sacramento. Before entering politics, Johnson was a professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Johnson holds a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His professional experience includes playing professional basketball and working as the Chief Executive Officer of St. HOPE, a nonprofit focused on urban revitalization. In 2014, he was elected as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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The Honorable Gwen Moore

PAST LEGACY AWARD RECIPIENTS

ONOREE

2018 HONOREE

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee is an American Politician and political activist currently serving in the United States Congress from the 13th district of California. Congresswoman. Lee was born in El Paso, TX and moved to California at a young age due to her fatherʼs military service. Congresswoman Lee began her social advocacy at a

NAACP branch to desegregate her high school cheerleading squad. She continued her activism at Mills College, while being single and raising two children, by working on Congresswoman Shirley Chrisholmʼs Presidential Campaign and being her delegate at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. While at Berkeley she founded the Community Health Alliance for Neighborhood Growth and Education to provide mental health treatment and services to the East Bay.

Joining Congressman Ron Dellums staff in 1975 as an intern she would become Chief of Staff and become one of the few females and persons of color to hold a senior position on Capitol Hill. In 1990 Congresswoman Lee was elected to the California State Assembly, then in 1996 was elected to the State Senate. Elected to the U.S. Congress in 1998, Congresswoman Lee has continually advocated for women, LGBT causes, race relations, those in poverty, and immigrants.

social worker until his election to Congress in 1970, after serving on the Berkeley City Council.

During his legendary first term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Dellums introduced more than 200 pieces of legislation, was an outspoken critic of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and took on the issue of racism in the military after his own personal experience with racism in the Marine Corps in the mid-1950ʼs. Congressman Dellums would be a vocal critic of South Africaʼs Apartheid and was a fervent antiwar advocate. He would retire from the House after a long and outstanding career as a civil rights advocate and political activist representing Oakland.

In 2006 at age 70 he won his Oakland Mayoral bid. He took aim at Public Safety and education initiatives while promoting Oakland as a model city. Congressman Dellums is remembered for his relentless dedication to social justice and his work to challenge the American status quo.

Posthumously Marcus Foster, Superintendent of Oakland Schools

Marcus Foster, Ed.D was an American educator and school administrator, who became the first black Superintendent of a large city school district when he became the Superintendent of Oakland Unified School district in Oakland, California.

Dr. Foster was born in an education centric family in Athens, GA. After moving to Philadelphia at a young age he attended public schools and graduated from South Philadelphia high school. After completing his B.A. from Cheyney State College in State College 1947, he worked in the Philadelphia public school system. His ability to connect with students fostered ideas like community involvement and other pilot projects to reverse the effects of racial discrimination in education.

During his time as Principal of Dunbar Elementary School, O.V. Catto School for Boys, and Gratz High School he led programs based around compensatory education and others that challenged the lasting legacy of racial discrimination. These programs in turn influenced national education and anti-poverty policies throughout the 1960ʼs. After moving to Oakland to lead the Oakland Unified School District as Superintendent, he challenged the status quo around racism, poverty, and underachievement in urban schools.

A champion of students, and a voice for the underserved Dr. Foster is remembered for his efforts to address educational inequality in urban schools. His uncanny ability to connect with students and peers from diverse backgrounds inspired much of the community programs he led in schools to combat underachievement and poverty.

Diane Watson, Ph.D is an American politician, social and political activist from Los Angeles, California who served as a United States Ambassador before serving in the United States House of Representatives. Dr. Watson is tried and true Angeleno; where she was born and raised, where she went to high school, Dorsey High School in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, where she began her educational journey at Los Angeles City College and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where she began her career as an elementary school teacher and school psychologist in the public school system, where she continued her higher education at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) and Claremont Graduate School.

After becoming the first black woman elected to the California State Senate, she was a strong advocate for the poor and worked to rebuild Los Angeles after the 1992 L.A. riots. She briefly served as United States Ambassador to Micronesia under the Clinton Administration then went on to win the special election to succeed the late Representative Julian Carey Dixon. On both foreign and domestic matters Dr. Watson advocated for underserved communities and fought to protect ostracized groups. She led the increase in U.S. aid to sub-saharan Africa for the HIV/AIDS pandemic and called for common sense welfare reform in the United States.

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PAST LEGACY AWARD RECIPIENTS

ONOREE

ONOREE

PAST LEGACY AWARD RECIPIENTS

2022 HONOREE

Bernard Tyson was an American health care executive serving as Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente until 2019. A Bay Area native, Tyson received his bachelors and M.B.A. from Golden Gate University.

His career with Kaiser Permanente spanned over 30 years and included roles from hospital administrator and division president to chief operating officer. As Chief Executive at Kaiser, Tyson worked tirelessly to make high quality healthcare affordable and accessible. He was influential in the development of community partnerships to combat houselessness and and firearm fatalities.

Alice Huffman, Ph.D is an American Social and Political figure serving as the President of the California Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP from 1999 until her retirement in 2020. After studying social and cultural anthropology at U.C. Berkeley as an EOP student, she completed extensive graduate work in Anthropology and Public Administration.

Through her grassroots activism and work she became an important bridge for government policy makers and the community at large. Dr. Huffman has worked for three governors, the attorney general, the California Democratic Party, while managing her own Public Affairs Firm and serving as CA/HI NAACP President.

Dr. Huffman is an icon in the California State Government. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work in the Legislature in addition to the Legacy Award, she has received the National NAACPʼs Thalheimer Award for the best state conference in the nation.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is considered by many to be one of the most powerful women in American politics today. She has gained a reputation as a fearless and outspoken advocate for women, children, people of color and the poor.

Elected in November 2020 to her sixteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives with more than 70 percent of the vote in the 43rd Congressional District of California, Congresswoman Waters represents a large part of South Los Angeles including the communities of Westchester, Playa Del Rey, and Watts and the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County comprised of Lennox, West Athens, West Carson, Harbor Gateway and El Camino Village. The 43rd District also includes the diverse cities of Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lomita and Torrance.

Congresswoman Waters made history as the first woman and first African American Chair of the House Financial Services Committee. An integral member of Congressional Democratic Leadership, Congresswoman Waters serves as a member of the Steering & Policy Committee and is the Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimerʼs Disease. She is also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and member and past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

CA/HI NAACP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

RICK L. CALLENDER, ESQ.

REVEREND JETHROE MOORE II

ZEPHANII SMITH EISENSTAT

NAOMI RAINEY-PIERSON

CAROLYN VEAL-HUNTER

LAJUANA BIVENS

IDA M. JOHNSON

OLIVIA VERRETT

REGINA CRAWFORD

ODESSA LEFRANCOIS

DAVE SMITH

DARRELL GOODE

FREDDYE DAVIS

ANTWANISHA WILLIAMSON

FRED SHAW

SHUNNON THOMAS

ANNA HOPKINS

BOBBY BIVENS

DR. LAWANDA WESLEY

RACHAEL GIBSON

GAIL BAUTISTA

CLINTON BAILEY

SEDRICK SPENCER

D’EADRIA DAVIE

MIKE DAVIS

RON HASSON

SANDRA E. THOMAS

ELIHU HARRIS

ZEPHANII EISENSTAT

JALEEL BAKER

SATIA AUSTIN

DELOIS RICHARDS

JOONE LOPEZ

WALTER WILSON

CHARLES DUKES

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