ABOUT

ABOUT THE

MISSOURI NAACP

STANDING IN SOLIDARITY FOR JUSTICE

Founded on February 12, 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. The organization has more than half of a million members and supporters throughout the world who are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, with activities rooted in campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization.


Our purpose as a state conference is to stimulate all units in our jurisdiction to greater activity in the fight for freedom. We coordinate activities and secure the cooperation of units within the state conference to eliminate discrimination and injustice against minority people in the area and seek the adoption of laws in the state legislature that will advance the programs and policies of the association. 

Black and white photograph of black individuals standing near the burned out buildings of their former homes and businesses in Springfield Illinois in 1908.

HISTORY

The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, and the previously named whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former slave-holding family), Florence Kelley, a social reformer and friend of Du Bois; Oswald Garrison Villard, and Charles Edward Russell, a renowned muckraker and close friend of Walling. Russell helped plan the NAACP and had served as acting chairman of the National Negro Committee (1909), a forerunner to the NAACP.

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LEADERSHIP

The strength of our organization in Missouri is dependent upon the leadership of individuals compelled to serve our communities of color with tenacity, vulnerability, courage, and hope.

MEET THE TEAM
Color image of current Missouri State Conference President Nimrod
Full color picture of Rod Chapel, John Bowman, Denise Lieberman, Yolanda Martin, and McKinzie Peterson at a press conference about the voter photo identification trial in Jefferson City in November of 2023.

MISSION & VISION

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.


The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.

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BRANCHES

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YOUTH COUNCILS &

COLLEGE CHAPTERS

32,385

ANNUAL & LIFE

ADULT MEMBERS

4,171

ANNUAL & LIFE

YOUTH MEMBERS

The NAACP values and honors the communities we serve. Through grassroots organizing, collaboration with other organizations, legislative advocacy, litigation, social events, and general camaraderie we will continue to fight for equity, push for political reform, and champion change.

Come join us at one of our upcoming meetings or events and see what it means to participate in the work of the NAACP.
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