[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Maybe the reason the NAACP has become so involved in this story is starting to come to light. Tin foil or not, I know country folks. The Mangums might live in Durham now, but they have long, strong family ties to Granville County.

I am looking for it, have not yet found it, but I would be willing to bet anthing there is a close blood relationship between TV Mangum and Travis Mangum from Durham

Hat tip Maggief!Tony Soprano at LS

[maggief]

NAACP rivalry???

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State's NAACP at fork A family dynasty faces a challenge
The News & Observer
May 25, 1996
Author: Ben Stocking; Staff Writer
Estimated printed pages: 4

For nearly half a century, the Alexander name has been virtually synonymous with the NAACP in North Carolina.

Kelly Alexander Sr. helped found the state organization and served as its president for 36 years. At the time of his death in 1984, he was serving as the NAACP's national board chairman. Kelly Alexander Jr. grew up in the organization and has been the state conference president since his father died 12 years ago.
Now, for the first time since 1948, someone with a different name is heading the state organization - at least temporarily. The NAACP'S national board suspended Alexander last weekend pending an audit of the state conference's finances.

His suspension marks a dramatic moment in the 53-year history of the state chapter. And the timing couldn't be more awkward.

It comes as the state conference is preparing to host the NAACP's national convention, which opens July 6 in Charlotte. It also comes as the national organization is trying to regain stability after the firing of its last leader, North Carolina native Ben Chavis, and a bruising election that led to the ouster of national board chairman William Gibson.

The prospect of another round of conflict discourages local chapter heads.

"I'm saddened that here we are getting ready to go into the national convention and this is another sour note about the NAACP," says James White, president of the South-Central Wake branch. "But I've always said the organization is better than any one person. And I've always said that we will survive."

It is unclear whether Alexander's suspension will prove to be a short-term setback or the end of a family dynasty. Officials at the national office declined to discuss Alexander's suspension, other than to say that they are investigating a complaint brought against him by other members of the state conference. They won't say who brought the complaint or when the audit is likely to be completed.

In the meantime, Melvin "Skip" Alston, a Greensboro real estate broker and first vice president of the state conference, is filling in as acting president.

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Politics or arrogance?

Alexander insists that he has fallen victim to the byzantine internal politics of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. His rivals at the state and national level have come together to do him in, he says.

"What you've got is a collection of folks who have axes to grind," Alexander says. "It's politics at its worst. It's really an attempt to lessen my voice as the national convention comes to town, to make me less of a thorn in the side of the powers that be."

Alexander contends that his opponents have seized on a technicality in an effort to undermine him. The pretext for his suspension, he says, was the fact that he used pre-signed checks - checks signed by the former state treasurer - to pay some bills. He says that he made no questionable expenditures and that he told the newly elected treasurer, Z. Ann Hoyle, that he was using the checks. She didn't object, he said.

Alexander blames several state and national NAACP members for his travails, including Hoyle and Skip Alston, the acting president. None would reply to Alexander's charges.

Alston, the only one who would comment at all, expressed admiration for Alexander.

"I've learned a lot from Kelly," he said. "He's dedicated to the NAACP and its principles. He has basically committed his life to this organization. I think he will always play a role in the NAACP one way or another."

But some state conference members say that Alexander shares an unappealing trait with Chavis and Gibson: arrogance.

"Sometimes his tactics are a little high-handed," said White, the South-Central Wake branch president. "Sometimes he seemingly is not in tune with the will of the people."


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Alston/Mangum???


Obituaries
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
April 29, 1997

EXCERPT

MANGUM

Mrs. Nancy Mae Bobbitt Mangum, 86, of 19 Dauphine Place, died Friday, April 25, 1997 at 4:30 a.m. at Duke Hospital. She was born and raised in Granville County.

She is survived by five sons, Willie Alston Jr., James Alston, Travis Mangum, Edward Mangum, William Mangum; and two daughters, Mrs. Gennie V. Pettiford, and Mrs. Glendora Harris Mangum, all of Durham, NC.; one brother, Paul Lyons; six sisters, Pearle Mae Lyons, Roberta Bobbitt and Dorothy Lee Percy, of Durham, NC., Eva Mae Lyons of Long Island, NY., Pourthy Lee Bass, and Marie Pattieway of Creedmoor, NC.; two sons-in-law, Mr. Phil Harris and Mr. Wallace Pettiford, both of Durham, NC.; five daughters-in-law, Mrs. Della Alston, Mrs. Mary Cheek Mangum, and Mrs. Betty Mangum, all of Durham; and S.F.C. Veronica Jean Mangum, of New Jersey, twenty-eight grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday at 12 noon at Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Michael Page will be officiating.

Visitation will be Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. at Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home, and at other times at 19 Dauphine Place. Burial will at Markham Memorials Garden.

[dforest]

Isn't that name Mangum the last name of the Duke lacrosse stripper?

[xoxoxox]

This would certainly explain a lot.

Kudos ! Protect the Bill of Rights & Maggief !

[TommyDale]

Was it ten years ago when Crystal Gail Mangum made the first claim of rape by three men? That happened in Creedmoor, located in Granville County.

[Howlin]

DUKELAX PING!!

[Sue Perkick]

Interesting. Good work!

Thanks for the ping. This web just keeps weaving.

[JLS]

I think this interesting and may explain the NAACP not using this case to push for reform of the DA system in NC that disproportionately affects poor black defendants. However, I don't think it changes the fundamental issues here:

1. A stripper/prostitute cried rape WHEN ASKED when facing involuntary commitment.

2. An apppointed prosecutor trailing big in the polls in his upcoming first electon grabbed on to this case to save him in the primary.

Certainly the NAACP is acting againt the interest of its constituence for some reason. The Duke gang of 88 and various other PC MSM outlets grabbed on to this case for their own propoganda purposes. But while interesting none of this changes the essential nature of this case.

Though Nifong is doing this out of self interest not at the bidding of the NAACP, this possible connection also interestingly points out another problem with the media conspiring to keep Mangum's and other accusers names from us. It makes it harder for the public to see if someone is railroading someone for alterior motives if we don't know who the first someone is. That is if we don't know the complaining witness is someone from a politically connected family, then we don't know to wonder if that is what is driving a prosecutor to go after a weak case. There is a reason why IN EVERY OTHER AREA people recognize that sunshine is better than the government acting in the shaddows.

[TexKat]

Elmira Mangum

During her stay in Buffalo, New York she was a founding member of the local chapter of the Auxiliary to the National Medical Association, and member of the Board of Directors of the William Emslie YWCA. Other professional, social and religious affiliations include the New York State Organization of Bursars and Business Administrators, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University at Buffalo; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Phi Delta Kappa, United Way of Erie County Investment Board, the Greater Refuge Temple of Christ, the National Association for Equal Opportunity, the National Association of Colleges and University Business Officers, Tudor Book Club, and the National Brotherhood of Skiers. Dr. Mangum serves annually as a judge in NAACP ACT-SO competition and is also a member of the National Council of Negro Women.

[maggief]

From LS:

http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=1943

This is Jakki ! ID revealed


http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=1959

More informatin on Clakki

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Obituaries
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
November 28, 1997

EXCERPT


GOOCH

Miss Lisa Annette Gooch, 29, of 617 Bernice Street, passed Thursday, November 27, 1997, at Duke Hospital. She was born in Durham, daughter of Mrs. Louise Cheek Gooch and the late Tony E. Gooch. She was a 1987 graduate of Durham High School and a former employee of Kerr Drugs, Lakewood Shopping Center. She was a member of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church and attended Gethsemane Baptist Church.

Graveside rites will be held Saturday, November 29, 1997, at 1:00 at Beechwood Cemetery, Rev. V.E. Browne, Pastor, Gethsemane Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Beechwood Cemetery.

Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Louise Cheek Gooch, of the home; her grandmother, Mrs. Gertrude Cheek, of Durham; 9 aunts, Mrs. Bettie C. Brame, Mrs. Mary C. Mangum, Miss Shirley Cheek, Mrs. Christine Gooch Ellison, Miss Joyce Gooch, Mrs. Corliss Gattis, and Miss Elaine Gooch, all of Durham, Mrs. Onnie Rowles, of Perry, Georgia, and Mrs. Donnie C. Royster, of Warrenton; an uncle, Mr. Carl Cheek, Jr., of Poway, California; a great-aunt, Mrs. Annie Bell Henderson, of Henderson; her godfather, Mr. Kenneth S. Wright, of Durham; a special friend, Mr. Joseph Williams, of Durham; and a host of cousins and other loving relatives and close friends.