District 6 VP Honored by Houston NAACP

CWA District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings was one of three recipients of the NAACP Presidential Award. Cummings was honored at the 2012 Freedom Fund Gala, an event sponsored by the Houston chapter of the NAACP.

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was honored with the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award. Leland, an advocate against poverty and hunger, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979. He was serving in that position in 1989 when he died in a plane crash in Ethiopia during a humanitarian mission.

Along with Cummings, the NAACP Presidential Award winners were Richard Carpenter, Chancellor, Lone Star College System; and Mary Ramos, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).