Activism: Civil Rights
American Civil Liberties Union
“If the rights of society’s most vulnerable members are denied, everybody’s rights are imperiled. The ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Albert DeSilver and others in 1920. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan and have grown from a roomful of civil liberties activists to an organization of more than 500,000 members and supporters. We handle nearly 6,000 court cases annually from our offices in almost every state. We work also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.” - from their website
CivilRights.org
“CivilRights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Its mission: to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information.” - from their website
FairHousingLaw.org
“The Fair Housing National Multimedia Campaign is designed to increase public awareness of the Fair Housing Act and its protections, encourage the reporting of fair housing discrimination to the appropriate agencies, and provide information and resources to help communities and institutions support individuals and families who exercise their fair housing rights.” - from their website
National Commission on the Voting Rights Act
“The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in conjunction with other leading civil rights organizations, has created the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act to conduct regional hearings across the country. The goal of the National Commission is to write a comprehensive report detailing discrimination in voting since 1982, the last major reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. This report will be used to educate the public, advocates, and policymakers on this record of discrimination and its relationship to the upcoming reauthorization.” - from their website
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
“The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is building a movement that unites the poor across color lines. Poverty afflicts Americans of all colors. Daily more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access to quality primary, secondary, and higher education.” - from their website
Protect Voting Rights: Renew the VRA
“The VRA is designed to ensure that every American has the right to vote ‘with no ifs, ands or buts.’ But the battle for equal opportunity is not yet over.” - from their website
Realize The Dream
“Realize the Dream highlights successful education reforms from around the nation, and provides parents with the tools they need to make a difference in their own community.” - from their website
SaveOurCourts.org
“The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil rights coalition, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, the research and education arm of the civil rights coalition, have launched the Save Our Courts campaign to inform the public about the Bush administration’s extremist nominees to the federal courts. The individuals charged with dispensing justice in our society have a direct impact on all of our rights, as well as on protecting the environment, workers, and consumers. The nation’s federal judges - who are appointed for life - must be moderate, fair and impartial. What could be more important than saving our courts from extremist ideologues?” - from their website
Student Activist Network
“The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF)/Americans for a Fair Chance (AFC) are pleased to launch a new student site that showcases critical student work in support of affirmative action and other important issues on campuses nationwide. The site will help students connect with one another in order to build a strong Student Activist Network. For students and driven by students, SAN encourages student activists to help shape content by submitting story ideas, news of activities on campus, and personal stories of activism.” - from their website
Voices of Civil Rights
“AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress welcome you to Voices of Civil Rights. We have collected and preserved thousands of personal stories and oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement, forming the world’s largest archive of personal accounts of civil rights history. The entire collection eventually will be housed at the Library of Congress. This Voices of Civil Rights website features a searchable online archive of selected stories submitted by people from every corner of the country and from all walks of life. In addition, there are interactive features, essays, interviews, and special reports.” - from their website
