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

...voter apathy - lack or civic participation - is a weapon of mass destruction. When we do not vote and do not participate in the civic life of our community, we are inflicting wounds on ourselves.

Marc H. Morial




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