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...Colored People has faced snarling police dogs, cross-burning Ku Klux Klansmen and murderous assaults on its members. But none of these posed as dangerous a threat to the N-Double-A's continued survival as the group's own recent leadership. Under the feckless sway of William F. Gibson, an inarticulate but wily South Carolina dentist who has chaired the group since 1985, the organization has sunk into near bankruptcy--both financially and intellectually. Says Michael Meyers, a former n.a.a.c.p. staff member who now leads the New York Civil Rights Coalition: ``The N.A.A.C.P. has become a laughingstock...
Last week it came to a crossroads. Despite rumors that Gibson controlled most of the votes on the N.A.A.C.P. board, Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, pulled off a stunning 30-to-29 victory to become the group's head. ``I am here because I love the N.A.A.C.P.,'' she said last week. ``I believe it must survive. I believe it must thrive.'' The former executive at Atlantic Richfield, who now serves as a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works, has always perceived the N.A.A.C.P. in terms of life and death...
...last year for agreeing to pay more than $300,000 in N.A.A.C.P. funds to a female former employee who complained of sexual harassment; he made the agreement without the approval of the board of directors.) Last week Stephanie Rones, a former deputy legal counsel, filed a suit that accused Gibson, Chavis and four other N.A.A.C.P. officials of knowingly tolerating discrimination against women employees. Rones is seeking $800,000 in damages...
Finally there is the Gibson legacy. The N.A.A.C.P. has been rocked by a series of allegations by syndicated columnist Carl Rowan about the uncontrolled spending of organizational funds by Gibson and his cronies on the 64-member board of directors. According to several board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside...
TheNAACP's annual board meeting tomorrow is likely to be the organization's most tumultuous to date, and could result in the ouster of its board chairman, William Gibson, says TIME National correspondent Jack White. Gibson, a supporter of former NAACP executive director Benjamin Chavis, has been accused of misusing funds and doing nothing to stop sexual harassment of some employees. Chavis was fired last August amid charges that he used NAACP money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit. The chief rival for Gibson's job is Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The organization...