Annual Freedom Awards Banquet
The NAACP Tri-County Branch is excited to announce our Freedom Awards Breakfast Banquet, to be held Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 9am at the Mount Moriah P.B. Church Family Life Center in Florence, Alabama. Tables of eight are available for $240.00. Individual tickets are only $30.00 each. The breakfast will be catered by Rhoda P’s. The speaker will be the Reverend Lyle Lee, President of Huntsville Bible College.
Our NAACP Branch will honor individuals and organizations with Freedom Awards to thank them for their contributions to the Shoals area. Everyone is welcome to participate in selecting these awardees by submitting entries. Nomination forms are available from our Branch officers, or by visiting our website at www.NAACPTriCountyAlabama.org. The deadline for nominations will be February 28, 2025.
Ads in our Annual Freedom Award Banquet souvenir program are $35.00 for a quarter page, $60.00 for half a page, $100.00 for a full page, $150.00 for the inside front or back cover, and $200.00 for the back cover. Patron ads are $20. Please send your ad copy along with payment to NAACP at Post Office Box 2110, Muscle Shoals, Alabama 35662.
We hope you will join the NAACP, and welcome everyone to attend our monthly meetings. For information about the Tri-County Branch, email President@NAACPTriCountyAlabama.org or call the NAACP at 256-383-4260. We look forward to seeing you at the NAACP Tri-County Freedom Awards Breakfast Banquet!
Minister Lorenza Collier, President
NAACP Tri-County Branch
Message from the President
Welcome to the NAACP’s Tri-County Branch of Alabama, servicing Colbert, Lauderdale, & Franklin Counties. Our mission is to promote positivity and cooperation in our community and beyond, to increase the involvement of each citizen to achieve political, educational, social, health, and economic equality, and to advocate for the civil rights for all people of northwest Alabama. The NAACP Tri-County Branch is an advocate for those who seek justice.
Minister Lo Collier, President
NAACP Tri-County Branch
Tri-County Branch 2025 Officers
- President – Lo Collier
- Vice President – Wesley Thompson
- Secretary – Tori Bailey
- Assistant Secretary – Mrs. Ann Underwood, Finance Committee
- Treasurer – Bettie Robinson, Chair Finance Committee
- Assistant Treasurer – Ms. Audrey Mitchell, UNA Advisor Youth/Education/ACT-SO
- Parliamentarian – Mr. Ollie Underwood, Parliamentarian
Executive Committee Members & Standing Committee Chairs (2020-22)
Executive Committee
Elected
- Wesley Thompson (3rd VP), Chair Religious Affairs
- James Garner, Chair Youth/Education/ACT-SO
- Ulysses “Foot” Burt, Chair Housing
- John Williams, Chair Legal Redress
- Joseph Mitchum, Chair Political Action
- Kaytrina Cole Coffey, Workshop Committee
- Steve Stanley, Chair Economic Affairs
- Nellie Vinson, Co-Chair Health
Appointed
- Robert Potts, Legal Redress Advisor
- Komarvo Denton, Vice Chair Redress
- Stephen Gill, Co-Chair Membership
- Roslyn Taylor, Chair WIN
- Katerina Cole Coffey, Chair Health