Current (1913 – July 3, 1997) was deputy executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Director of Branches and Field Administration of the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement.
He also wrote a book, was an accomplished jazz musician, and was an ordained Methodist minister.
[2] Current came to New York City from Detroit in 1946 at the behest of Walter Francis White.
[1] Cecilia Suyat Marshall was his private secretary at the NAACP.
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