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Pages in category "Civil rights organizations in the United States" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of ...
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights opened in 1996 and calls Baker “an unsung hero of racial and economic justice, the civil rights movement.” That she was. And her legacy remains strong today.
Civil Rights Division may be one of most important. ... she’s represented a host of known conservative figures, sometimes at odds with news organizations and being accused — or accusing others ...
Black civil rights organizations say they are planning a multifaceted counter to public cries to dismantle DEI efforts from business leaders and politicians.
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 ...
America’s leading civil rights organizations condemned the conservative-dominated Supreme Court for ending affirmative action programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.