It was revealed after his death that the late Senator James O. Eastland had been a secret member of the NAACP. I don't know if that applied for the even more popular Stennis or not.
"It was revealed after his death that the late Senator James O. Eastland had been a secret member of the NAACP."
I did not know that. I was completly fooled.
Are you sure? It might have beem the NCAA and not the NAACP. It is pretty easy to confuse these initialed organizations.