Gov. Bob Ferguson’s history with the NAACP goes back to his days in college when he began reading books about the law.

He told a crowd of about 200 people outside the new permanent home of the NAACP of Tri-Cities about how he read the history of lawyers who used the law to bend the country toward justice.

The organization opened the doors on a new chapter by converting a former doctor’s clinic into their new offices. They celebrated at a Saturday event where the governor came to speak.

Ferguson told the crowd that he interned with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York when he was in law school.

“Which, as you can imagine, (was) a very formative experience. It’s one thing to have classroom work. It’s another thing to see actual lawyers right in the courtrooms advocating for justice i

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