{"id":3137,"date":"1991-07-24T11:56:17","date_gmt":"1991-07-24T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2014-02-03T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:28:39","slug":"1991-letter-to-larry-pinkney-from-naacp-minneapolis-branch-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/1991-letter-to-larry-pinkney-from-naacp-minneapolis-branch-president\/","title":{"rendered":"1991 Letter to Larry Pinkney from NAACP Minneapolis Branch President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney served as a Program Staff member with the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP and in July of 1991 resigned to pursue other endeavors. He received a letter from NAACP Minneapolis Branch President, Matthew Little, on July 24, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Contents of letter (image below):<\/p>\n<p>National Association for the Advancement of Colored People<br \/>\nMinneapolis Branch<br \/>\n[address omitted]<br \/>\nMinneapolis, Minnesota 55408<br \/>\n[phone # omitted]<\/p>\n<p>July 24, 1991<\/p>\n<p>Larry Pinkney<br \/>\n&amp; Von Sheppard<br \/>\nMinneapolis, MN<\/p>\n<p>Dear Larry and Von:<\/p>\n<p>It is with regret that we find it necessary to accept your resignation from our NAACP Back-to-School \/ Stay-in-School program.<\/p>\n<p>The program is one that is very dear to the NAACP, and we had looked forward to your special contributions in helping to see that it become successful.<\/p>\n<p>However, we accept your justification for being compelled to resign. We thank you for your contributions to the program thus far; and wish you the very best in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Little,<br \/>\nPresident<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Woolfork,<br \/>\nChairperson Back-to-School \/ Stay-in-School Program<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1991.7.24_NAACP_Program_Staff.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3138\" title=\"1991.7.24_NAACP_Program_Staff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1991.7.24_NAACP_Program_Staff-790x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Image of July 24, 1991 letter from Matthew Little to Larry Pinkney and Von Sheppard\" width=\"595\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1991.7.24_NAACP_Program_Staff-790x1024.jpeg 790w, https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1991.7.24_NAACP_Program_Staff-231x300.jpeg 231w, https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1991.7.24_NAACP_Program_Staff.jpeg 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/Larry%20Pinkney\/bio.htm\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"400px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney served as a Program Staff member with the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP and in July of 1991 resigned to pursue other endeavors. He received a letter from NAACP Minneapolis Branch President, Matthew Little, on July 24, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Contents of letter (image below):<\/p>\n<p>National Association for the Advancement of Colored People<br \/> Minneapolis [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}