Opinion: NAACP ‘on the Brink of Extinction’
June 20, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The departure of NAACP president Bruce Gordon, after just 19 months at the Baltimore charity, is the latest in a string of signals indicating a grim future for the civil-rights group, writes author Debra J. Dickerson in a column for the online magazine Salon.
Mr. Gordon, a veteran businessman and former executive at Verizon, took the NAACP’s top position while saying he’d refocus the charity on social services and put less of an emphasis on protest, Ms. Dickerson writes.
Ultimately, that direction did not mesh with the board’s wishes, she says, a reality she believes is central to the organization’s inability to evolve.
