"Poverty politics and the war in Iraq": NAACP's White Female President

...Covington attorney Annie Spell is the only white, female NAACP chapter president in the United States. On Saturday evening, she was among the speakers to address the Greater Tangipahoa NAACP's Freedom Fund Banquet on the SLU campus. She pulled no punches.

In a drum beat of criticism against the Bush administration, Spell called the government to task on such hot-button issues as "illegal" wiretaps, Katrina relief, the occupation of Iraq, inadequate public education, and what she called "poverty politics" in Louisiana and across America....

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...Attorney and activist Annie Spell endured death threats and the loss of a Girl Scout troop on her way to becoming one of the country's few white NAACP branch presidents....

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2005-05-24/news_feat.html

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