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INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER DOCUMENTS
HISTORY OF NAACP
MAKES COPIES AVAILABLE AT CONVENTION
and
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being held here in Indianapolis. TL.
thousand copies available to Convention
in the registration area.
At the time of his election as the NAACP' s Executive Director,
Dr.Chavis was the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
of the Commission for Racial Justice of the 1.7 million-member
United Church of Christ with national offices in Cleveland.
He had served in that position since 1985.
The Recorder's attractive and well laid out front page
includes stories highlighting the ascertain of the NAACP's new
Executive Director Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., a piece on the
local branch of the Association which is headed by Dr. A.D.
Pinckney, and also a piece on the historic visit to the convention
by Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress.
oldest continually
published a special
- — — Convention
The Indianapolis Recorder, the second
published newspaper in the U.S. has v
commemorative issue dedicated to the-NAACP’s 84th Annual
. .... - ’ The publication has made several
goers. You can find them
An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, Dr.
Chavis received his Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in chemistry
from the University of North Carolina; the Master of Divinity
degree (M. Div), magna cum laude, from the Divinity School of Duke
University; and the Doctor of Ministry (D. Min.) from Howard
University. He has also completed course requirements for the
Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D) in systematic theology at Union
Theological Seminary in New York.
Born January 22, 1948, in Oxford, North Carolina, Dr. Chavis
comes from a long line of civil rights leaders dating back to his
great-great-grandfather, the Rev. John Chavis, who some 250 years
ago became the first African-American ordained Presbyterian
minister in the United States.
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Virtually all of Dr. Chavis' life, beginning at the age of 12
when he participated in efforts to integrate the library in his
hometown of Oxford, North Carolina, has been committed to the
pursuit of racial and economic justice.
Under his leadership, the Commission sponsored successful
"Freedom Rides" to the Alabama Black Belt and Chicago to ensure
voting rights and enhance voter mobilization; issued the landmark
report, "Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States"; sponsored
the First National People of Color Environment Leadership Summit;
and provided national leadership in efforts to stem the rise of
racially-motivated violence in the United States.
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NAACP Convention Daily Bulletin, text, 1993; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1833367/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.