31/05/2023
Dear Prospective Patron:
The Wilmington Journal Breakfast Club (WJBC) in cooperation with the RS & TC Jervay Foundation will hold the 2nd Symposium in Commemoration of 1898 with the focus on “Bringing the 1898 Assessment Alive.” In 1998 the 1898 Commission rendered a report on the impact of the 1898 Massacre in Wilmington NC. Bishop William Barber, the then NC NAACP President, responded to that report with 7-Action Points that were never followed through on.
We have a new vision and a new initiative of Assessment and follow through in securing redress for the harms that were done, because of the 1898 Massacre. NC Award winning journalist, Cash Michaels, will be the moderator of our 3-hour event on Nov. 11, 2023 at Williston Middle School, which will be followed by a reception. We will have a stellar panel to address the need to ignite a progressive initiative to Revive, Renovate, and Restore individuals, as well as Historic Structures.
WJBC in cooperation with the Jervay Foundation is working with Historic Gregory Church to establish a Gregory Church/Wilmington Journal Historic District. These two icons of the civil rights era, and the challenges of the Wilmington 10 deserve to go forward as monuments in history toward a new day in the redress of the 1898 Massacre.
We’re asking you to be among our sponsors of this timely Symposium set on the 125th Commemoration of what happened in Wilmington NC in 1898. Sponsors will be listed prominently in the event program, as well as have their names scrolled on the large screen during the event. Once your check is received, you will receive an acknowledgement of your gift. Patrons can support this event at from $50 to $500. We ask patrons to submit their contributions by August 1, 2023.
Be a part of writing a better chapter in NC History. Send your check or money order to RS & TC Jervay Foundation, P.O. Box 1020, Wilmington, NC 28402, and let’s get beyond the past to a new day for all North Carolinians.
Yours truly,
Paul R. Jervay Jr.
Publisher of Carolina Call