The Nation - News from May 5, 1986

The NAACP, chased out of New York City by high rents, has moved below the Mason-Dixon line to a $2-million headquarters in Baltimore that will officially open today. At one time, locating the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People in a Southern city would have been impossible, and New York seemed the only logical place to house the growing civil rights group, Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director, said. He said that the opening of the 77-year-old organization’s new headquarters is symbolic in that the nation’s leading black group has purchased its first home in Dixie.