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What is the Mission of the NAACP?
Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black person and all persons of color.
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 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.
To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
Vision Statement
We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination.
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Law and Justice Center protest
December 5, 1982
Back in late 1982, a demonstration organized by the Bloomington-Normal chapter of the NAACP drew some 50 people to the McLean County Law and Justice Center. They were there to protest the state’s attorney’s decision to reduce murder charges against David Young to voluntary manslaughter. Young, who was white, had been indicted on two counts of murder in connection with the shooting death of Godfrey Miller, who was black.
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