Organizations

The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Its vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.

The following are the principle objectives of the NAACP:

• To ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of all citizens. 
• To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States.
• To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
• To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state and local laws securing civil rights.
• To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination.
• To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise there of, and to take any other lawful action infurtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and its Constitution.