About Us

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Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based 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, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization.  

The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution – the principal objectives of the Association shall be:

1. To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens;
2. To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States;
3. To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes;
4. To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights;
5. To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination; and
6. 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.

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. 

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.