Seeking to erase a blemish on the leadership of the nation's largest civil rights group, the NAACP will seek the ouster of four national board members who have either admitted or been accused of financial misdealings.
NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams said Monday: "We want them to resign because the reputation of the NAACP is at stake."In recent years, fighting to advance the nation's civil rights agenda has taken a back seat to internal bickering and questions over finances at the national NAACP.
Evers-Williams in 1995 won a hotly contested election for the chairmanship of the organization's 64-member board after then-chairman William Gibson was accused of squandering NAACP funds.
A subsequent audit by the accounting firm of Coopers & Ly-brand found "certain excessive and unreasonable expenditures" by top officials including $112,000 in questionable spending by Gib-son.