Texas NAACP

Description

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 for conducting voter mobilization. – Austin, Texas

Texas NAACP

goals

• 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

Goals

by: Rachel Pena

and Joe Zamarron

• 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.

Funding Sources

Funding Sources

• Bill and Melindda Gates foundation
• Rockefeller foundation
• Verizon Foundation
• Donations and being a member

Tactics and strategies

• AT&T Foundation
• Bauman Family Foundation
• Carnegie corporation of new york
• Ford Foundation

• Lobbying
• Grassroots campaigns
• Political action committees
• litigation