About NAACP DC Branch

NAACP Founders

On February 12, 1909 the NAACP was founded by a multiracial group of activists, who answered "The Call," in the New York City, NY.

Ida Wells-Barnett
W.E.B. DuBois
Henry Moscowitz
Mary White Ovington
Oswald Garrison Villiard
William English Walling

The NAACP DC Branch was chartered June 3, 1913 by:

Carrie Clifford
Geo Cook
W. B. Hartgrove
H. R. Clarke
Charlotte Hunter
Julia Layton
William McCary
M. Harshaw
Rev. A. C. Garner

Historic DC Branch Members

Carter G. Woodson

NAACP Misson

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

NAACP Vision

The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.

NAACP Objectives

The principal objectives of the NAACP shall be:

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.

DC Branch Strategic Priorities

Implement an entrepreneurship initiative to build wealth within communities of color through promoting entrepreneurship and supporting minority-owned and veteran owned businesses
Implement a health and wellness initiative fighting obesity and diet-related illnesses disproportionately affecting minorities and veterans within our communities
Strive to ensure that all DC students have access to an equal and high-quality public education through engaging parents and the administrators to ensure more accountability in DC Public School system
Work to secure DC Voting Rights through educating the DC community about the 601,723 DC resident population that pays more federal taxes per capita than all but one other state, however are barred from having voting representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

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DC Branch Committees

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