Boston NAACP May Rescue Headquarters
The oldest NAACP chapter has raised the $17,000 it needed to pay off mortgage debts to the federal government and hang on to its dilapidated headquarters, officials said Sunday.
They had said the deadline was today. But officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which owns the mortgage, said Sunday that the Boston chapter had been given an extension until July.
Jack E. Robinson, president-elect of the Boston chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, denied using the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, celebrated today, as a fund-raising ploy.
The Boston chapter was founded in 1910, and it moved into its current headquarters in 1956.
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