The Nation's OLDEST Civil Rights Organization

P.O. Box 5767, Providence, RI 02903 | (401) 521-6222

Our Mission

To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

Coming Events

Thursday, 11/20/2008 · General Membership Meeting
Candidates from the Nominating Committee

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Martin Luther King, Jr




Today In Black History

On 11/18:
1977 - Robert Edward Chambliss, former KKK member, convicted of first degree murder in connection with 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL
1978 - Andrew Young receives Springarn Award in recognition of the deftness with which he handled relations between this nation and other countries
1993 - Black and White leaders in South Africa approve new democracy constitution that gave blacks the vote and ended white minority rule