The executive director of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP will be the featured speaker at the annual Union County celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
The celebration will take place Monday at 7 p.m. at McBeth Baptist Church, 105 Lawson Ave.
The Rev. Dr. Francys Johnson is a former special education student who graduated from Georgia Southern University and earned a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Georgia. He continued his education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.
Johnson served on the political science and criminal justice faculties at Georgia Southern and Savannah State universities.
He was appointed director of the Southeast Region of the NAACP - the association's largest region - by former NAACP President and CEO Bruce Gordon. The region includes Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
As regional director, Johnson established “citizen review boards” to counter incidents of police brutality in Georgia, Tennessee and Florida; monitor aging desegregation orders in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama; and mobilized state and regional coalitions to thwart regression of public policy.
Johnson is also the ninth pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church of Pembroke, Ga.
Monday's celebration is free and open to the public. It will be broadcast live on WBCU radio.
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