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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.

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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

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I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

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Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

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Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

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But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 14th, 1940

Died: August 15th, 2015

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