Richard Rose, an Atlanta businessman and long-time civil rights activist, is the newly elected president of the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP.
Rose, a certified public accountant, former member of the NAACP’s executive board and two-year term treasurer was elected Tuesday and assumes office Jan. 1.
“I am extremely honored and excited to head the Atlanta branch of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious civil rights organization,” said Rose.
A 1970 graduate of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University, he said one of his goals is to increase the number of blacks registered to vote and to find ways to get more African Americans to the polls.
He said his involvement with the organization began when he was still in high school in Memphis, Tenn. Rose replaces the Rev. R. L. White, who has served as president of the local branch since 1997.
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