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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Former NAACP chief dies

The man who led the Georgia NAACP for more than a decade has died. Walter C. Butler headed the state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1993-2005. He passed away Friday in Stockbridge after a battle with cancer.

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