Press Advisory

PRESS ADVISORY
GEORGIA STATE CONFERENCE NAACP to hold Press Conference in Marietta Georgia (Cobb County) to address the injustice of an African American mother facing more prison time than the hit and run driver responsible for killing her son



Contact: Edward DuBose, President
NAACP, Georgia State Conference
Member, NAACP National Board of Directors
president@naacpga.org, (404) 577-8977, (706) 464-8539


Marietta Georgia — On July 22, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. the Georgia State Conference NAACP, the Cobb County Branch NAACP, Radio Talk Show Host Derrick Boazman and Coalition partners will hold a press conference to speak out against an African American mother facing potential prison time for the hit and run death of her son by a driver who confessed to consuming Alcohol on the morning of the incident. It is a grave miscarriage of justice when the mother who should still be grieving is forced to fight harder for her freedom than the man who killed her son. Ms. Raquel Nelson if sentenced would be forced to spend more time in prison than the man who killed her son. Georgia NAACP State Conference President Edward O DuBose will also be joined by Ms Raquel Nelson – mother of the four year old child who was struck and killed by a hit and run driver.


WHAT: Press conference to speak out against an African American mother ( Ms. Raquel Nelson) facing potential prison time for being found guilty of the death of her son killing of her son at the hands of a driver who admitted to

WHO: Georgia State Conference NAACP, Cobb County NAACP, Radio Talk Show Host Derrick Boazman and
Coalition Partners.

WHEN: Friday, July 22, 2011, at 11:30am
WHERE: Glover Park (Marietta Square), 68 East Park Square, Marietta Georgia 30060
HOW: The Georgia State Conference NAACP encourages all freedom loving citizens to join the NAACP and others in Grover Park in support of Justice for Raquel Nelson.

Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its half-million adult and youth members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.
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