Because of the claims she misled people about her race, embattled National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Spokane, Washington, chapter president Rachel Dolezal resigned on Monday morning. According to NPR and other sources, Dolezal said in a message to the organization's executive committee that her resignation was "in the best interest of the NAACP."

Last week, Dolezal made national headlines after her estranged parents provided evidence that she is white and has changed her appearance. Dolezal told a local reporter that she identifies as black. On a government form, she reportedly identified herself as mixed race - black, Native American and white.

"In the eye of this current storm, I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP," Dolezal said in a statement posted to the organization's Facebook page, NPR reports. "It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley." According to NPR, "Over her time at the NAACP, Dolezal had become a prominent figure in the civil rights movement.

On Friday, as the drama unfolded, the NAACP issued a statement in support of Dolezal." "One's racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership," the statement read. Still, Dolezal wrote that she was hopeful that she had positioned the Spokane chapter well to transition ahead, saying that she had helped secure the group a downtown office and improved the organization's financial standing.

CNN contacted Dolezal last week, and she declined an interview. She said she stands by her record of service. Her adopted brother, Ezra Dolezal, said she took him aside three years ago and asked him "not to blow her cover" about her alternate identity. "She said she was starting a new life and this one person over there was actually going to be her black father," he said.