Baptist pastor to speak at NAACP state meeting

A Reading, Pa., pastor will deliver the keynote address at the first state convention of the NAACP held in York County next week, YDR reported today.

The Rev. Bernie Manning, formerly of York, is pastor at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church and the son of Richard Manning, who helped found the York branch of the NAACP in 1940.

"We know how important the faith community is to the civil rights movement," York Chapter president Eric Kirkland said, noting that many of the original civil rights leaders were pastors.

The convention will be at the Holiday Inn Hippodrome in West Manchester Township.