[nothingnew]

.....several local vendors involved have been left with bills totaling more than $100,000.

Dopes. This is the NAACP fer cryin' out loud.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Bob]

Dopes. This is the NAACP fer cryin' out loud.

Actually, it wasn't the NAACP itself. It was a wanna-be 'party planner' trading on their name.

[vetvetdoug]

Ever wonder why MLK was staying at a flea bag hotel like the Lorraine in Memphis when just around the corner was the Holiday Inn, at that time a hotel that was state of the art? The former manager of the Holiday Inn refused MLK's entourage the week of April 1968 because every time they had stayed at the Holiday Inn previously, MLK and the NAACP left many bills unpaid.