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Mfume, Kweisi

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Personal name headingMfume, Kweisi
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Variant(s)Grey, Frizzell
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1948-10-24
Place of birthTurner (Md.)
AffiliationMorgan State University Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (Md.). City Council United States. Congress. House National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Medical Association (U.S.)
Profession or occupationExecutives Legislators Radio talk show hosts
Found inHis No free ride, c1996: t.p. (Kweisi Mfume) last printed p. (President and CEO of the NAACP; resides in Baltimore, Md.)
African American National Biography, accessed March 1, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mfume, Kweisi; Frizzell Gray; radio/television personality, NAACP leader/officer, U.S. Representative; born 24 October 1948 in Turners Station, Maryland, United States; graduated from Morgan State University (1976); MA in Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University (1984); host at WEBB radio station; cofounder and program director of Morgan's State University radio station; served on the Baltimore City Council (1979-1986); was elected to the US Congress and served at Maryland's Seventh Congressional District (1986-1996), was chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) (1993); was elected president and CEO of the NAACP and president of the National Medical Association (2010-2011))