Kathy A. Reddick, current president of the Cambridge NAACP, which co-hosted the event, said the association is active in the area.
"We have an aggressive agenda, mainly relating to the education of youth," she told the national leadership.
The group paused for a moment of silence in honor of Alvin Thompson, a former Massachusetts state representative from Cambridge, who died yesterday morning. Thompson was a past president of the Cambridge NAACP, and a person who Ogletree described as an "an old-time politician, un-bossed and un-bought."
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