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Article: Chavis to head NAACP. (Benjamin Chavis, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)(News)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- April 28, 1993
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The first time that William Land saw Benjamin Chavis, Chavis was walking down a highway outside Raleigh, North Carolina, leading a mule with a coffin strapped to its back. With Chavis were people from around the state who had decided to march on the capital to protest the death penalty. That was two decades ago, and at the time Chavis was a youth worker for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, recalled Land, a civil rights worker and, like Chavis, a United Church of Christ minister. It was the beginning of a long involvement with the civil rights movement--one that has taken the black activist from Oxford, North Carolina, to a top-level position with the ...
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