The NAACP National Board of Directors is pleased to announce the selection of Benjamin T. Jealous as National President-elect. He is the 17th person chosen to lead the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization in its 99-year history.
Jealous, 35, comes to the NAACP from the San Francisco-based Rosenberg Foundation*, where he's served as president since 2005.
"Ben Jealous has spent his professional life working for and raising money for the very social justice concerns for which the NAACP advocates," said NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond. "He is a perfect match. He is intergenerational and his presence is a demonstration that the nearly 100-year old NAACP attracts the best and brightest. We are looking forward to a great future under his leadership."
Jealous' career path includes leadership positions with Amnesty International, where he directed its U.S. Domestic Human Rights Program from 2002 to 2005.
Prior to that, he served as executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association–a federation of more than 200 black community newspapers in 38 states. He is former managing editor of the Jackson Advocate, the oldest black-owned weekly newspaper in Mississippi that has been a long-time fierce champion of civil rights and the disenfranchised. Jealous was mentored by the Advocate's publisher, the late Charles Tisdale, who was attacked as a teenager for helping found a local NAACP unit. The Jackson Advocate was torched repeatedly for its principled stances on civil rights.
As a community organizer on civil rights lawsuits in the
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