N.A.A.C.P. Providence Branch
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.
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The NAACP
The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, in New York
City by a multiracial group of activists, who answered the call
in response to increasing violence against black people in all
parts of the country. Few Americans today understand that in the
early years of the twentieth century in America, black citizens
did not enjoy the assurance of police protection from physical
assault or mob violence.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
is a non-profit organization established with the objective of
insuring the political, educational, social, and economic equality
of minority groups. The NAACP has as its mission the goal
of eliminating race prejudice and removing all barriers of racial
discrimination through advocacy, the electoral process, lobbying,
litigation, organization, and protest.
IT IS THE OLDEST, LARGEST AND STRONGEST
CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
LOCAL HISTORY
The Providence, Rhode Island Branch of the NAACP works
at the national, regional, and local level to secure civil rights
through advocacy for supportive legislation and by the implementation
of our Strategic Initiatives. The NAACP also stands poised
to defend civil rights wherever and whenever they are threatened.
The executive board of the local branch meeting
is the first Thursday of each month, and the general membership
meeting is the third Thursday of each month at 6:00 PM sharp.
The meetings are held at the Beneficent Church, 300 Weybosset
Street. Everyone is welcome to join and attend.