VISION & HISTORY

The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.

Objectives

·        To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens

·        To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States

·        To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes

·        To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights

·        To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination

·        To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP’s Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.

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The six NAACP Game Changers address the major areas of inequality facing African Americans that are the focus of the NAACP’s work.

History

Founded February 12, 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s foremost, largest, and most widely recognized civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, leading grassroots campaigns for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization. Click to learn more about the history of the NAACP. 

Meet

Our LEADERSHIP

PRESIDENT:                                       MR. HARRELL CARTER, JR.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT:                DR. MARTHA ROBINSON

SECRETARY:                                      MS. DAPHNE NELSON

ASST. SECRETARY:                         MS. PATRICIA PORTER

TREASURER:                                      MR. EDDIE WILSON

ASST. TREASURER:                         MS. ALICIA BROOKS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:             MS. LOVETTE BROOKS

                                                               REV. MARSHALL BROOKS (Chair-Political Action)

                                                               MR. RICKEY BROWN (Chair-Press & Publicity)

                                                               MR. DAVID CARTER(Co-Chair 2022 Freedom Fund)

                                                               MR. E. BYRON ELAM (Chair-Civic Engagement)

                                                               REV. REVA FISHER

                                                               MS. AMEERA GRAVES (Advisor-Lane College)

                                                               REV. PAUL LACY(Chair-Religious Affairs)

                                                               MR. JOVANTE MAHONE (President – Lane College)

                                                               MR. MURHPY MCKINNEY (Chair-Membership)

                                                               REV. MENZIES

                                                               DR. MICHELLE MORAGNE (Chair – Health)

                                                               MS. JIMMIE TRICE BAYLOR (Chair –Housing)

                                                               MS. CORINE TURNER

                                                               MR. TERRILL PERRY (Chair –Labor/Human Rights)

                                                               DR. JERRY WOODS (Chair – Education)


Contact Email:   JMCNAACPSECRETARY@YAHOO.COM