The NAACP Salt Lake Branch host the 28th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Luncheon

January 16, 2012

Little America Hotel

500 South Main St.

Salt Lake City, UT

Reception: 11:30 a.m.     Lunch: 12:00 Noon

For reservations call by Tuesday, January 10, 2012 to telephone (801) 250-5088 or email jdwnaacp@att.net

Cost for Luncheon

Table - (10 seats)  $650.00

Individual seats - $65.00

Youth up to age 18 - $35.00

Make checks payable to NAACP Salt Lake Branch and mail to: 

NAACP Salt Lake Branch

P.O. Box 25414

Salt Lake City, UT  84125-0414

The keynote speaker is Avery Friedman, Civil Rights Attorney.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Award will be presented to Judge Tyrone Medley, Third District Court, State of Utah.

The Rosa Parks Award will be presented to Gloria Wilkinson, Vice President, Community Relations at Zions Bank.

Utah Jazz will present their annual scholarship to a Utah College Student.

NAACP Salt Lake Branch will present scholarships and Art Awards will be presented to students at M. Lynn Bennion Elementary. Recognition will be given to M. Lynn Bennion Elementary School Principal, James Yapias for their outstanding achievements.

About our speaker, Avery Friedman:

The Wall Street Journal calls Avery Friedman a “walking reference source” on civil rights law. He has been recognized in TIME, The New York Times and USA Today as a nationally distinguished civil rights lawyer and law professor. The NAACP has called him a “true freedom fighter” and “an artist in the courtroom."

Mr. Friedman has lectured on federal civil rights law at nearly three dozen major law schools including Stanford, Duke, Berkeley, Michigan, North Carolina, Tulane and the University of Texas. He has appeared by invitation as an expert on civil and constitutional rights by both the U.S. Senate and House subcommittees. For nearly eleven years, Avery serves as CNN’s Weekend Legal Analyst every Saturday, bringing a human rights perspective on CNN to America’s hottest legal cases to over 3,000,000 viewers each week.

Avery Friedman has been part of anti-Klan prosecutions as Special Counsel to the Texas Commission on Human Rights. He presently serves as Visiting Professor in Constitutional Law at Ursuline College. Mr. Friedman was inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame’s as its first living white male.

Mr. Friedman is recipient of the Legendary Champion of Civil Rights Award by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Freedom Award, the NAACP’s highest award and the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Human Rights Award presented by the governor. Ursuline College recently created an endowed scholarship, the Avery Friedman Human Rights Scholarship, which will help underwrite tuition for students whose efforts are devoted to human rights.

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