May 29, 2008
Choice of New NAACP Leader Rankles Some Board Members
Jeffrey MacMillan
Ben Jealous is president and chief executive officer of the NAACP in Baltimore.
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Jeffrey MacMillan
Ben Jealous is president and chief executive officer of the NAACP in Baltimore.
The nation's oldest civil-rights group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Baltimore, will soon be led by the youngest president ever in its nearly 100-year history.
Benjamin Todd Jealous, 35, will take the helm of the organization in September.
Mr. Jealous is president of the Rosenberg Foundation, a San Francisco grant maker that finances projects to aid low-income families. Previously, he worked for Amnesty International, the human-rights
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