I just watched this on CNN.com. One of the questions was, "Is the NAACP necessary anymore now that Barack Obama is in the White House?"
Why is that being asked? The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 just 6 months before the 19th amendment was passed. It was founded by the leaders of NAWSA that had fought for Women's suffrage and could trace its convoluted roots back to 1850 and beyond. The LWV was tasked with educating this vast group of new voters and it did. But by the 1930s educating women voters and gaining equal voting rights for women was a done deal.
It's 2010 now. No one asks why LWV is still around, but they do ask why the NAACP is around. And I highly doubt anyone would ask that of the leaders of NOW or LWV if Hillary Clinton was president. I have my theories, but I'd be interested to hear others.