December 9, 2004

In a Surprise Move, Head of NAACP Announces Resignation

By Grant Williams

Following the surprise resignation last week of its high-profile president, Kweisi Mfume, the NAACP was preparing to seek a successor even as it coped with an Internal Revenue Service investigation into its activities and worked to strengthen its finances and membership rolls.

Mr. Mfume, a former U.S. congressman, became president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1996, when the organization was mired in a $3.2-million debt and faced internal

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