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The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) was established in 1950 by civil rights activists Arnold Aronson, A. Philip Randolph, and Roy Wilkins. [10] According to Harvard International Review, the coalition was created "as the legislative arm" of the civil rights movement. [11]
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion ...
The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was a coalition of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations operating in Mississippi. COFO was formed in 1961 to coordinate and unite voter registration and other civil rights activities in the state and oversee the distribution of funds from the Voter Education Project.
"We need to make sure that we rise up because the threats to black and brown people in this country are very real," said Alphonso David, president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum.
A coalition of civil rights groups has sued Georgia over its just-enacted voting law that it claims targets Black voters and other people of color after they scored historic victories in the Deep ...
Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to step down as president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the international human and civil rights organization he founded.
The Rainbow Coalition was an anti-racist, working-class multicultural movement founded April 4, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization and José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords.
Ralph G. Neas (born May 17, 1946) is an American civil rights activist and executive. He is best known for directing a series of national campaigns to strengthen and protect civil rights laws during the Reagan and Bush presidencies.