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When younger delegates wanted to amend the NAACP’s constitution to refer to themselves as militant, older and younger members debated the issue. On Monday, NAACP Chairman Leon Russell announced the organization had made the change. “Your militancy should be governed by knowledge, strategy, and a results-oriented claim, not just emotion,” Russell told middle, high school and college students during the NAACP’s 113th national convention in Atlantic City. Younger members had spoken and been heard. The amending of the NAACP’s constitution speaks to the influence its 25,000 younger delegates wield …