On December 9, 1995, Kweisi Mfume, then a Democratic Congressman from Maryland, was unanimously elected as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). At the time, the NAACP was facing financial challenges and a leadership void. Mfume officially resigned from Congress and assumed his new role at the NAACP on February 20, 1996. During his tenure, he implemented significant reforms to address the organization’s financial issues and worked to restore its prominence in the civil rights movement.?
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