{"id":367375,"date":"2026-06-19T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367375\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:24:10","slug":"fresnos-naacp-chapter-celebrates-76th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367375\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno&#8217;s NAACP chapter celebrates 76th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, June 19, 2026 4:53PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno's NAACP chapter celebrates 76th anniversary\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local organization is being honored for more than seven decades of advocacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is celebrating its 76th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Thursday, the Fresno City Council gave the organization a proclamation for its efforts to bring meaningful change in fighting for social justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dustin Candler is the president of the Fresno Chapter says this anniversary is a way to reflect on the legacy and continued impacts for several generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8221;We are just honored and gracious to be here today, and we thank you for the opportunity to serve this community, and we look forward to continue to serve the citizens of Fresno County,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The NAACP was founded in 1909 and stands as the nations oldest and largest civil rights organization.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, June 19, 2026 4:53PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local organization is being honored for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[148993,148992,9376,112,114,113,52335,294],"class_list":["post-367375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-148993","tag-76-years","tag-anniversary","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-naacp","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}