Bruce Gordon

NAACP President Bruce Gordon addresses the Class of 2006

A 1968 Gettysburg College graduate, Bruce Gordon, president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), delivered the commencement address to the College's 594 graduates and more than 4,000 guests assembled on Beachem Portico at the north side of Pennsylvania Hall May 21.

"Too many Americans have nightmares instead of dreams," Gordon said to the graduates at his alma mater. "None of us are well off when many of us are not. There are great disparities in this country. They are unacceptable to me and should be to you. Those who have little should be your concern. In America, we must think of these problems as our problems."

Gordon, the only African American in his graduating class 38 years ago, praised progress at Gettysburg College where the student body and faculty are more diverse and a campus chapter of the NAACP now exists.

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