Chrysler Group President and CEO, Dieter Zetsche, Joins the NAACP To Celebrate the Annual 48th Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner

  *  Zetsche to serve as NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Corporate Chair
  *  Press Briefing on Sunday, April 27, 3:30 p.m. Cobo Center

WHAT: In conjunction with the NAACP, Dieter Zetsche, President and CEO of Chrysler Group, and other dignitaries, will celebrate the NAACP's 48th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, "The Souls of Black Folks: 100 Years Later" on Sunday, April 27. Zetsche will serve as Corporate Chair of the event, which is being held at Cobo Center. Professor Manning Marable, author, historian, activist, and renowned speaker will deliver the keynote address.

As part of the events activities, Zetsche, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Manning, and Rev. Wendell Anthony, President -- Detroit Branch NAACP, will be available for media interviews at a news conference prior to the dinner.

  WHO:  Dieter Zetsche, President and CEO, Chrysler Group
        Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, City of Detroit
        Rev. Wendell Anthony, President, Detroit Branch NAACP

Manning Marable, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University; Author: The Great Wells of Democracy (2003), Freedom (2002), Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000).

        Other local dignitaries

  WHEN:  Sunday, April 27, 2003
         3:30 p.m. (Press conference)

  WHERE:  Cobo Center Room O2-33

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PRNewswire -- April 25