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Article: San Jose/Silicon Valley branch is successful start-up
- Article from:
- The Crisis
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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San Jose, Calif., is in the middle of one of America's hottest spots for business and technology - Silicon Valley. Some of today's most innovative companies, names like Intel and Hewlett Packard, are located here. The technology-driven economic revolution born here is so tremendous, in January the region's NAACP branch changed its name to the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP.
"San Jose is the capital of Silicon Valley," branch President Rick Callender boasts. He has served as president for less than a year, but has been involved with the branch since 1986, when his mother was legal redress chair and Callender himself was a youth member. "I grew up part of the NAACP family," Callender says. ...