Chavis, Ben, 1948- (Personal Name)

Myerson, M. Nothing could be finer, 1978 (subj.) introd. (Ben Chavis; Black activist, member of the Wilmington 10) ch. 1 (Rev. Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr.; b. 1/22/48)

African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Chavis, Benjamin Franklin, Jr.; Benjamin Chavis-Muhammad; clergyman, civil rights activist, leader; born 22 January 1948 in Oxford, North Carolina, United States. He earned his BA from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, his master's of divinity from Duke University and his doctor of ministry from Howard University. He was appointed program director of United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (UCC-CRJ) (1969). He became an executive director and CEO of United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (1985), and vice president of National Council of Churches of the USA (1988), as well as executive director and CEO of NAACP (1993-1994). In 1997 he joined the Nation of Islam as regional minister)