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Romaine Franklin at table with 2 men and a woman

Romaine Franklin, 1917 - 2016

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded 1909. This Cumberland News photograph from the late 1950s or early 1960s, depicts an early meeting of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Depicted here are, from left to right, Harold Banks, Romaine Franklin, James Hurt, and John Gordon.