The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (The Leadership Conference), formerly called The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, is an umbrella group

Umbrella organization

An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations...

 of American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 civil rights

Civil rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...

 interest groups.

Organizational history

The Leadership Conference was founded in 1950 by three leaders in the American civil rights movement: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was, in 1925, the first labor organization led by blacks to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor . It merged in 1978 with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks , now known as the Transportation Communications International Union.The...

 founder A. Philip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African American civil-rights movement and the American labor movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Negro labor union. In the early civil-rights movement, Randolph led the March on Washington...

, NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ....

, and National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs is an American Jewish non-profit organization that deals with community relations. It is a coordinating round table organization of 14 other national Jewish organizations as well as 127 local Jewish federations and community relations councils...

 leader Arnold Aronson

Arnold Aronson

Arnold Aronson was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980. In 1941 he worked with A. Philip Randolph to pressure President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8002, opening jobs in the federal bureaucracy and in...

.

Leadership and organizational structure

As of June 2010, Wade Henderson

Wade Henderson

Wade Henderson is president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and counsel to the Leadership Conference Education Fund.The Leadership Conference is a civil and human rights coalition, charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and...

 served as President and CEO of both The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund (see below); Karen McGill Lawson was Executive Vice President and COO of both organizations; and Nancy M. Zirkin was Executive Vice President for Policy of both organizations. Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Irene Height was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.-Early life:Height was born in...

, who had been Chairperson of the Leadership Conference's Executive Committee, died on April 20, 2010; as of June 25, 2010, her replacement as chair had not yet been named.

As of June 2010, the Leadership Conference website reported that the organization had "more than 200" member organizations. The site described the organization's mission as "promot[ing] and protect[ing] the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States . . . [t]hrough advocacy and outreach to targeted constituencies . . . ."

According to the organization's website, "The Leadership Conference is a 501(c)(4) organization that engages in legislative advocacy. It ... has coordinated national lobbying efforts on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957."

The Leadership Conference Education Fund, described by the Leadership Conference website as "the education and research arm of The Leadership Conference," was founded in 1969. It was previously known as the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

According to the Leadership Conference website, the Education Fund "builds public will for federal policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States. The Education Fund's campaigns empower and mobilize advocates around the country to push for progressive change in the United States."

The Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization, which means that contributions are tax-deductible.

Member organizations (undated list)

• A. Philip Randolph Institute
  A. Philip Randolph Institute
  The A. Philip Randolph Institute is an organization for African American trade unionists.-History:Following passage of the Voting Rights Act, APRI was co-founded in 1965 by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin...
  
  
• AARP
  AARP
  AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, is the United States-based non-governmental organization and interest group, founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus, PhD, a retired educator from California, and based in Washington, D.C. According to its mission statement, it is "a...
  
  
• ADA Watch
• Advancement Project
  Advancement Project
  The Advancement Project is group with the stated goal of promoting civil rights. It was founded in 1999 by civil rights lawyers in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.. Board members include Constance L. Rice, who is also a co-director, former United States Assistant Attorney General Bill Lann Lee,...
  
  
• African Methodist Episcopal Church
  African Methodist Episcopal Church
  The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the...
  
  
• Alaska Federation of Natives
  Alaska Federation of Natives
  The Alaska Federation of Natives is the largest statewide Native organization in Alaska. Its membership includes 178 villages , thirteen regional native corporations, and twelve regional nonprofit and tribal consortiums that contract and run federal and state programs...
  
  
• Alaska Inter-Tribal Council
• Alliance for Retired Americans
  Alliance for Retired Americans
  The Alliance for Retired Americans is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of retired trade union members affiliated with the AFL-CIO. Its predecessor organization was known as the National Council of Senior Citizens....
  
  
• Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
  
  
• Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
  
  
• American Association of People with Disabilities
  American Association of People with Disabilities
  The American Association of People with Disabilities is a 501 non-profit organization in Washington, DC., which advocates for the legal rights of people with disabilities...
  
  
• American Association of University Women
  American Association of University Women
  The American Association of University Women advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. It was founded in 1882 by Ellen Swallow Richards and Marion Talbot...
  
  
• American Baptist Churches USA
  American Baptist Churches USA
  The American Baptist Churches USA is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its...
  
   - National Ministries
• American Civil Liberties Union
  American Civil Liberties Union
  The American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and...
  
  
• American Council of the Blind
  American Council of the Blind
  The American Council of the Blind is a nationwide organization in the United States. It is an organization mainly made up of blind and visually impaired people who want to achieve independence and equality .-History:The American Council of the Blind was formed out of the dissolution of the...
  
  
• American Ethical Union
  Ethical Culture
  The Ethical movement, also referred to as the Ethical Culture movement or simply Ethical Culture, is an ethical, educational, and religious movement that is usually traced back to Felix Adler...
  
  
• American Federation of Government Employees
  American Federation of Government Employees
  The American Federation of Government Employees is an American labor union representing over 625,000 employees of the federal government, about 5,000 employees of the District of Columbia, and a few hundred private sector employees, mostly in and around federal facilities...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
  AFL-CIO
  The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...
  
   (AFL-CIO)
• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
  American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
  The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is the second- or third-largest labor union in the United States and one of the fastest-growing, representing over 1.4 million employees, primarily in local and state government and in the health care industry. AFSCME is part of the...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• American Federation of Teachers
  American Federation of Teachers
  The American Federation of Teachers is an American labor union founded in 1916 that represents teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professionals...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• American Friends Service Committee
  American Friends Service Committee
  The American Friends Service Committee is a Religious Society of Friends affiliated organization which works for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world...
  
  
• American Jewish Committee
  American Jewish Committee
  The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world...
  
  
• American Jewish Congress
  American Jewish Congress
  The American Jewish Congress describes itself as an association of Jewish Americans organized to defend Jewish interests at home and abroad through public policy advocacy, using diplomacy, legislation, and the courts....
  
  
• American Nurses Association
  American Nurses Association
  The American Nurses Association is a professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911...
  
  
• American Postal Workers Union
  American Postal Workers Union
  The American Postal Workers Union is a labor union in the United States. It represents employees of the United States Postal Service who are clerks, maintenance employees, and motor vehicle service workers...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• American Society for Public Administration
  American Society for Public Administration
  The American Society for Public Administration is a membership association in the United States sponsoring conferences and providing professional services primarily to those who study the implementation of government policy, public administration, and, to a lesser degree, programs of civil society...
  
  
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  The American Speech–Language–Hearing Association is a professional association for speech–language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally...
  
  
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
  American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
  The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee states that it is the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States. According to its web page it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has over 40 chapters in 24 states and members in all...
  
  
• Americans for Democratic Action
  Americans for Democratic Action
  Americans for Democratic Action is an American political organization advocating progressive policies. ADA works for social and economic justice through lobbying, grassroots organizing, research and supporting progressive candidates.-History:...
  
  
• Anti-Defamation League
  Anti-Defamation League
  The Anti-Defamation League is an international non-governmental organization based in the United States. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects...
  
  
• Appleseed
  Appleseed Foundation
  Appleseed is a non-partisan, nonprofit network of 16 public interest justice centers in the United States and Mexico.- History :...
  
  
• Asian American Justice Center
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
  Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
  The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of Asian-Pacific American trade union members affiliated with the AFL-CIO...
  
  
• Associated Actors and Artistes of America
  Associated Actors and Artistes of America
  The Associated Actors and Artistes of America is the federation of trade unions for performing artists in the United States. The following unions belong to the 4As:* The Actors' Equity Association * The American Guild of Musical Artists...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
  Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
  The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was a collection of community-based organizations in the United States that advocated for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues...
  
   (ACORN)
• Association of Junior Leagues International
  Junior League
  The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. is a non-profit organization of 292 Junior Leagues in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States. Junior Leagues are educational and charitable women's organizations aimed at improving their communities through volunteerism and...
  
  
• The Association of University Centers on Disabilities
• B'Nai B'rith International
  B'nai B'rith
  B'nai B'rith International |Covenant]]" is the oldest continually operating Jewish service organization in the world. It was initially founded as the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith in New York City, on , 1843, by Henry Jones and 11 others....
  
  
• Brennan Center for Justice
  Brennan Center for Justice
  The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on issues involving democracy and justice...
  
   at New York University School of Law
  New York University School of Law
  The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
  
  
• Building and Construction Trades Department - AFL-CIO
• Catholic Charities, USA
  Catholic Charities
  Catholic Charities is a network of charities whose aim is "to provide service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire church and other people of good will to do the same." It is one of the largest charities in the United States...
  
  
• Center for Community Change
  Center for Community Change
  The Center for Community Change is one of the larger community building organizations in the United States. It was founded in 1968 in response to civil rights concerns of the 1960s...
  
  
• Center for Responsible Lending
  Center for Responsible Lending
  The Center for Responsible Lending is a nonprofit organization non-partisan research and policy group based in Durham, North Carolina and with offices in Washington DC and Oakland, Calif. Its purpose is to educate the public about financial products and to push for policies that curb predatory...
  
  
• Center for Women Policy Studies
• Children's Defense Fund
  Children's Defense Fund
  The Children's Defense Fund is an American child advocacy and research group, founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman. Its motto Leave No Child Behind reflects its mission to advocate on behalf of children...
  
  
• Church of the Brethren
  Church of the Brethren
  The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren organized in 1708 by eight persons led by Alexander Mack, in Schwarzenau, Bad Berleburg, Germany. The Brethren movement began as a melding of Radical Pietist and Anabaptist ideas during the...
  
   - World Ministries Commission
• Church Women United
  Church Women United
  Church Women United is a national ecumenical Christian women’s movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico. CWU's members represent 26...
  
  
• Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
  Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
  The Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights is a bipartisan organization established in 1982 to monitor the civil rights policies and practices of the federal government in the United States. Its work is grounded in the belief that the civil rights agenda benefits the entire country, not just...
  
  
• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
  Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
  The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of African American trade union members affiliated with the AFL-CIO....
  
  
• Common Cause
  Common Cause
  Common Cause is a self-described nonpartisan, nonprofit lobby and advocacy organization. It was founded in 1970 by John W. Gardner, a Republican former cabinet secretary under Lyndon Johnson, as a "citizens' lobby" with a mission focused on making U.S. political institutions more open and...
  
  
• Communications Workers of America
  Communications Workers of America
  Communications Workers of America is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States representing about 550,000 members in both the private and public sectors. The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada representing about 8,000 members...
  
  
• Community Action Partnership
• Community Transportation Association of America
• DC Vote
• Delta Sigma Theta
  Delta Sigma Theta
  Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University...
  
  
• Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
• Division of Homeland Ministries - Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  The Christian Church is a Mainline Protestant denomination in North America. It is often referred to as The Christian Church, The Disciples of Christ, or more simply as The Disciples...
  
  
• Epilepsy Foundation of America
• Episcopal Church
  Episcopal Church (United States)
  The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
  
   - Public Affairs Office
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three churches. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4,543,037 baptized members, with 2,527,941 of them...
  
  
• FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy
• Families USA
  Families USA
  Families USA is an American non-profit consumer health-care advocacy organization. It was co-founded by attorney Ronald Pollack, its current executive director, and Philippe Villers, the organization's current President....
  
  
• Federally Employed Women
• Feminist Majority Foundation
  Feminist Majority Foundation
  The Feminist Majority Foundation is a non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to Women's Equality, Reproductive Health and Non-Violence, headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. The name Feminist Majority comes from a 1986 Newsweek/Gallup public opinion poll in which 56 percent...
  
  
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
  Friends Committee on National Legislation
  The Friends Committee on National Legislation a 501 lobbying organization in the public interest founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends...
  
  
• Global Rights: Partners for Justice
• GMP International Union
• Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America
• Hip Hop Caucus
  Hip Hop Caucus
  The Hip Hop Caucus is a national, non-profit organization in the United States, which aims to promote political activism for young U.S. voters using hip-hop music and culture....
  
  
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union
• Human Rights Campaign
  Human Rights Campaign
  The Human Rights Campaign is the United States' largest LGBT advocacy group and lobbying organization; according to the HRC, it has more than one million members and supporters...
  
  
• Human Rights First
  Human Rights First
  Human Rights First is a nonprofit, nonpartisan human rights organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C....
  
  

• Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World
• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
  International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
  The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries.-Formation and early history:...
  
  
• International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• International Union, UAW
  United Auto Workers
  The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...
  
  
• Iota Phi Lambda
  Iota Phi Lambda
  Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Inc. is the first African American Greek-lettered business sorority established by African American business women. There are now more than 100 chapters with membership numbering more than 5,000 in 85 cities and the US Virgin Islands...
  
  
• Japanese American Citizens League
  Japanese American Citizens League
  The was formed in 1929 to protect the rights of Japanese Americans from the state and federal governments. It fought for civil rights for Japanese Americans, assisted those in internment camps during World War II, and led a successful campaign for redress for internment from the U.S...
  
  
• Jewish Community Centers Association
  Jewish Community Center
  A Jewish Community Center or Jewish Community Centre is a general recreational, social and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities...
  
  
• Jewish Council for Public Affairs
  Jewish Council for Public Affairs
  The Jewish Council for Public Affairs is an American Jewish non-profit organization that deals with community relations. It is a coordinating round table organization of 14 other national Jewish organizations as well as 127 local Jewish federations and community relations councils...
  
  
• Jewish Labor Committee
  Jewish Labor Committee
  The Jewish Labor Committee is an American secular Jewish organization dedicated to promoting labor union interests in Jewish communities, and Jewish interests within unions. The organization is headquartered in New York City, with local/regional offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...
  
  
• Jewish Women International
• Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• The Justice Project
• Kappa Alpha Psi
  Kappa Alpha Psi
  Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin...
  
  
• Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
  Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
  The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement is a nonprofit, nonpartisan Latino organization affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win federation...
  
  
• Laborers' International Union of North America
  Laborers' International Union of North America
  The Laborers' International Union of North America is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of March 31, 2010, they have about 632,000 members, members, about 80,000 of which are in Canada.The current general president is Terence M...
  
  
• Lambda Legal
  Lambda Legal
  Lambda Legal is an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities as well as people living with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.Lambda's founder William J. Thom, Esq...
  
  
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, often simply The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights or Lawyers' Committee, is a civil rights organization that was founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.-Origins: 1963-1973:...
  
  
• League of Women Voters of the United States
  League of Women Voters
  The League of Women Voters is an American political organization founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote...
  
  
• Legal Aid Society
  Legal Aid Society
  The Legal Aid Society in New York City is the United States' oldest and largest provider of legal services to the indigent. It operates both traditional civil and criminal law cases.-History:...
  
   – Employment Law Center
• Legal Momentum
  Legal Momentum
  Legal Momentum, formerly known as NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, is the oldest legal advocacy group for women in the United States. Founded in 1970, Legal Momentum is a liberal multi-issue organization dedicated to advancing women’s rights across the country...
  
  
• Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
  Mashantucket Pequot Tribe
  The Mashantucket Pequot are a small Native American tribal nation of the Algonquian language community in the state of Connecticut. Within the tribe's Reservation, in Ledyard, New London County, Connecticut, the Mashantucket Pequot operate Foxwoods Resort Casino, the world's largest resort...
  
  
• Matthew Shepard Foundation
  Matthew Shepard Foundation
  The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an LGBT rights group founded in December 1998 by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year-old son, Matthew, who was murdered in Wyoming in October 1998.-The Matthew Shepard Point Scholarship:...
  
  
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• NA'AMAT USA
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City....
  
  
• National Alliance Of Postal and Federal Employees
  National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees
  The National Alliance Of Postal and Federal Employees is a labor union in the United States. It was founded October 6, 1913 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
  
  
• National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...
  
   (NAACP)
• National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
• National Association of Community Health Centers
• National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA)
• National Association of Human Rights Workers
• National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund
• National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs
• National Association of Neighborhoods
• National Association of Social Workers
  National Association of Social Workers
  The National Association of Social Workers is a professional organization of social workers in the United States. It had over 150,000 members as of January 2008 and provides guidance, research, up to date information, advocacy, and other resources for its members and for social workers in general...
  
  
• National Bar Association
  National Bar Association
  The National Bar Association was established in 1925 as the "Negro Bar Association" after Gertrude Rush, George H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown, James B. Morris, and Charles P. Howard, Sr. were denied membership in the American Bar Association. It represents the interests of African-American attorneys in...
  
  
• National Black Caucus of State Legislators
  National Black Caucus of State Legislators
  The National Black Caucus of State Legislators is an American political organization composed of African Americans elected to the state legislatures in the United States of America and its territories.-Background:...
  
  
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice
• National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD)
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
  National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
  The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is a large organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in the United States...
  
  
• National Committee on Pay Equity
• National Community Reinvestment Coalition
• The National Conference for Community and Justice
• National Conference of Black Mayors
• National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
• National Congress of American Indians
  National Congress of American Indians
  The National Congress of American Indians is a American Indian and Alaska Native indigenous rights organization. It was founded in 1944 in response to termination and assimilation policies that the U.S. government forced upon the tribal governments in contradiction of their treaty rights and...
  
  
• National Consumer Law Center
  National Consumer Law Center
  The National Consumer Law Center is an American nonprofit organization specializing in consumer issues on behalf of low-income people. Legal services, government and private attorneys, as well as community organizations, work with the center to advocate for consumer reform.The National Consumer Law...
  
  
• National Council of Catholic Women
• National Council of Churches
  National Council of Churches
  The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is an ecumenical partnership of 37 Christian faith groups in the United States. Its member denominations, churches, conventions, and archdioceses include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African American, Evangelical, and historic peace...
  
  
• National Council of Jewish Women
  National Council of Jewish Women
  The National Council of Jewish Women defines itself as a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action...
  
  
• National Council of La Raza
  National Council of La Raza
  The National Council of La Raza is a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy group in the United States, focused on improving opportunities for Hispanics. It is sometimes confused with La Raza Unida...
  
  
• National Council of Negro Women
  National Council of Negro Women
  The National Council of Negro Women is a non-profit organization with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African American women, their families and communities. NCNW fulfills this mission through research, advocacy, national and community based services and...
  
  
• National Council on Independent Living
• National Disability Rights Network
• National Education Association
  National Education Association
  The National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...
  
  
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• National Fair Housing Alliance
• National Farmers Union
  National Farmers Union
  National Farmers Union may refer to:*National Farmers Union *National Farmers Union *National Farmers Union *National Farmers Union of Scotland*National Farmers Union -See also:...
  
  
• National Federation of Filipino American Association
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from the ground up. The Task Force is the country’s premier social justice organization fighting to improve the lives of LGBT people, and working to create positive, lasting...
  
  
• National Health Law Program
  National Health Law Program
  The National Health Law Program, usually abbreviated as NHeLP, works on behalf of limited-income people, people with disabilities, and children to improve their access to quality health care and to enforce their legal rights to health...
  
  
• National Immigration Law Center
• National Institute for Employment Equity
• National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
• National Lawyers Guild
  National Lawyers Guild
  The National Lawyers Guild is an advocacy group in the United States "dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system . ....
  
  
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
• National Organization for Women
  National Organization for Women
  The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S...
  
  
• National Partnership for Women and Families
• The National PTA
  Parent-Teacher Association
  In the U.S. a parent-teacher association or Parent-Teacher-Student Association is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school. Most public and private K-8 schools in the U.S. have a PTA, a...
  
  
• National Puerto Rican Coalition

• Phi Delta Kappa
  Phi Delta Kappa
  Phi Delta Kappa is an US professional organization for educators. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. It was founded on 24 January 1906. Phi Delta Kappa also had a youth organization, called Xinos, girls, and Kudos, guys.-Membership:Currently, membership consists of students,...
  
  
• National Urban League
  National Urban League
  The National Urban League , formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest...
  
  
• National Women's Law Center
  National Women's Law Center
  The National Women's Law Center is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization founded in 1972. Through litigation and policy initiatives, the Center strives to improve the lives of women and their families in the areas of health, employment, family economic security, and education...
  
  
• National Women's Political Caucus
  National Women's Political Caucus
  The National Women's Political Caucus is a national bipartisan grassroots organization in the United States dedicated to recruiting, training, and supporting women who seek elected and appointed offices....
  
  
• Native American Rights Fund
  Native American Rights Fund
  The Native American Rights Fund, also known as NARF, is a non-profit organization that uses existing laws and treaties to ensure that state governments and the national government live up to their legal obligations...
  
  
• Newspaper Guild
  Newspaper Guild
  The Newspaper Guild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933 who noticed that unionized printers and truck drivers were making more money than they did...
  
  
• 9to5, National Association of Working Women
  9to5, National Association of Working Women
  9to5, National Association of Working Women is an organization established in 1973 that is dedicated to improving working conditions and ensuring the rights of women and families in the United States....
  
  
• OCA
  Organization of Chinese Americans
  Founded in 1973, the Organization of Chinese Americans is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States...
  
   (formerly known as Organization of Chinese Americans
  Organization of Chinese Americans
  Founded in 1973, the Organization of Chinese Americans is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States...
  
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• Omega Psi Phi
  Omega Psi Phi
  Omega Psi Phi is a fraternity and is the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. The founders were three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos...
  
  
• Open Society Policy Center
• Paralyzed Veterans of America
  Paralyzed Veterans of America
  The Paralyzed Veterans of America is a veterans' service organization in the United States of America, founded in 1946. The organization holds 34 chapters and 61 National Service Offices in the United States...
  
  
• Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
  Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
  Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is a socio-political group of family members and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Its mission statement describes the goals of PFLAG as promoting health and well being of LGBT persons as well as actively supporting...
  
  
• People For the American Way
  People For the American Way
  People For the American Way is a progressive advocacy group in the United States. Under U.S. tax code, People For the American Way is organized as a tax-exempt 501 non-profit organization.-Purpose:...
  
  
• Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
  
  
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
  Planned Parenthood
  Planned Parenthood Federation of America , commonly shortened to Planned Parenthood, is the U.S. affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and one of its larger members. PPFA is a non-profit organization providing reproductive health and maternal and child health services. The...
  
  
• PolicyLink
  PolicyLink
  PolicyLink is a national research and action institute which works to advance economic and social equity. They focus on policies effecting low-income communities and communities of color.-Background:...
  
  
• Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
  Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
  The Presbyterian Church , or PC, is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. Part of the Reformed tradition, it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S...
  
  
• Pride at Work
  Pride at Work
  Pride at Work is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group of labor union activists which seeks full equality for LGBT workers in their workplaces and their unions.-Homosexual rights and the labor movement: History:...
  
  
• Progressive National Baptist Convention
  Progressive National Baptist Convention
  The Progressive National Baptist Convention, Incorporated is a convention of African-American Baptists emphasizing civil rights and social justice....
  
  
• Project Equality
• Project Vote
  Project Vote
  Project Vote is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit 501 organization that works with marginalized and under-represented voters. Its current executive director is Michael Slater, who has worked for Project Vote since 2004...
  
  
• Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
  Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
  Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is a labor union in the United States and Canada that is a semi-autonomous division of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Change to Win Federation...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• Secular Coalition for America
  Secular Coalition for America
  The Secular Coalition for America is an advocacy group located in Washington D.C., representing atheists, humanists, freethinkers, agnostics, and other non-theistic people with a naturalistic worldview in American politics. Sean Faircloth, a five-term Maine state legislator, served as Executive...
  
  
• Service Employees International Union
  Service Employees International Union
  Service Employees International Union is a labor union representing about 1.8 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States , and Canada...
  
  
• Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
  Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
  The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is a non-profit legal services, watchdog, and policy organization founded in the United States in 1993. It is dedicated to ending discrimination and harassment of gay and lesbian U.S. military personnel negatively affected by the "Don't ask, don't tell"...
  
  
• Sigma Gamma Rho
  Sigma Gamma Rho
  Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  
• Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
  Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
  Founded as the Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Task Force in 1996, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund is a national civil rights and educational organization in the United States...
  
   (SALDEF)
• South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
• Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
  
  
• Southern Poverty Law Center
  Southern Poverty Law Center
  The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups; legal representation for victims of hate groups; monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations; and educational programs that...
  
  
• Teach For America
  Teach For America
  Teach For America is an American non-profit organization that aims to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation's most promising future leaders to teach for two or more years in low-income communities throughout the United States...
  
  
• Union for Reform Judaism
  Union for Reform Judaism
  The Union for Reform Judaism , formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations , is an organization which supports Reform Jewish congregations in North America. The current President is Rabbi Eric H...
  
  
• Unitarian Universalist Association
  Unitarian Universalist Association
  Unitarian Universalist Association , in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of...
  
  
• UNITE HERE
  UNITE HERE
  UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members The union's members work predominantly in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries...
  
  
• United Association
  United Association
  The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the United Association is a trade union of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing, pipefitting, and sprinkler fitting industry of...
  
  
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
  United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
  The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States. One of the unions that formed the American Federation of Labor in 1886, it left the AFL-CIO in 2001.-Early years:...
  
  
• United Church of Christ
  United Church of Christ
  The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...
  
   - Justice & Witness Ministries
• United Church of Christ
  United Church of Christ
  The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...
  
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• United Farm Workers
  United Farm Workers
  The United Farm Workers of America is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee led by Filipino organizer Larry Itliong, and the National Farm Workers Association led by César Chávez...
  
  , AFL-CIO
• United Food and Commercial Workers
  United Food and Commercial Workers
  The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile, G4S Security, chemical...
  
  
• United Methodist Church
  United Methodist Church
  The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
  
   - General Board of Church and Society
  General Board of Church and Society
  The United Methodist Board of Church and Society is a general agency of the United Methodist Church. It is one of four international general program boards of The United Methodist Church as set out the UMC Book of Discipline. The General Board has headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C....
  
  
• United Mine Workers
  United Mine Workers
  The United Mine Workers of America is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners and coal technicians. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• United States Student Association
  United States Student Association
  The United States Student Association , founded in 1947, bills itself as the oldest and largest student association in the United States. It has a historical and current commitment to diversity and breaking the barriers to educational access imposed by inequality and discrimination...
  
  
• United Steelworkers
  United Steelworkers
  The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union is the largest industrial labor union in North America, with 705,000 members. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, U.S., the United Steelworkers represents workers in the United...
  
  
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is the primary organization of synagogues practicing Conservative Judaism in North America...
  
  
• Women of Reform Judaism
  Women of Reform Judaism
  Women of Reform Judaism , formerly known as the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, is the women's affiliate of the Union for Reform Judaism. As the primary women's organization in the Reform Jewish movement, WRJ represents over 65,000 women...
  
  
• Women's American ORT
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was established in the United States in January 1915 as the Woman's Peace Party...
  
  
• Workers Defense League
• The Workmen's Circle
• YMCA of the USA, National Board
  YMCA
  The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
  
  
• YWCA of the USA, National Board
• Zeta Phi Beta
  Zeta Phi Beta
  Zeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.Zeta Phi Beta is organized into 800+ chapters, in eight intercontinental regions including the USA, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean...
  
  

External links

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