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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Its mission has remained constant for its first century: to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. It advances its mission through the press, through non-violent mass petitioning for redress of grievances; through the ballot, through lobbying and through the courts. In the face of 100 years of covert and overt racial hostility and violence, including murders and bombings, NAACP leaders and members have steadfastly and courageously used legal and moral persuasion.
In their years at the helm North Carolina’s State Conference President, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Executive Director Ms. Amina Turner, supported by the hard work and volunteering of the State Executive Committee and local Branch leaders, have helped reenergize and strengthen the Conference into the largest State Conference in the South that has been repeatedly recognized by the National NAACP for its activism. Just as important has been the NC NAACP's joining hands with predominantly White and Latino organizations to build exciting new political alliances around a People's Agenda that reverses the State's historic priorities to focus on the needs of ordinary people of all colors. This political alliance is called the Historic Thousands on Jones Street: The Peoples General Assembly Coalition, named after the annual People's Assembly in front of the State Legislature on the Saturday nearest the NAACP's birthday.
On Saturday, February 14th, 2009, the NC NAACP marked its 100th anniversary by bringing historic thousands of North Carolinians of all colors and races to its third annual People's Assembly on Jones Street. With one voice their coalition advocated for the 14-Point People's Agenda of the HKonJ alliance to change the way North Carolina treats the poor of our state, the priorities of our state, and the political processes of our state.
In 2012, LGBT advocacy and social justice organizations like Equality North Carolina, The Freedom Center for Social Justice and Southerners on New Ground (S.O.N.G.) are now proud members of the HKonJ alliance and will join the Historic Thousands on Jones St. annual march in Raleigh, on February 11, 2012, to march with the NAACP in opposition to discriminatory measures like the constitutional amendment on the ballot in May 8, 2012.
In doing so, we continue the coalition work started by Rev. Barber from the 2011 Equality NC Foundation Conference, during which he gave an electrifying speech that captured the grievous harms caused by this discriminatory measure:
The Coalition to Protect All NC Families thanks the NC NAACP for its generous support.