NAACP Chicago Southside
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Our Issues & Advocacy
Criminal Justice
The NAACP Chicago Southside advocates for the reform of our justice systems to better protect our communities and to remove racial disparities within the justice system. The Chicago Southside Branch is at the forefront of pushing police reform across the City of Chicago.
Environmental Justice and Health
Across the globe environmental injustice disproportionately affects communities of color. Whether it is the placement of toxic coal plants in communities of low income or lead in drinking water, environmental injustice is indefinitely tied to poor health outcomes. The NAACP Chicago Southside Branch is paving the way for reform in our environmental and health systems. The Southside is pushing for accountability and reform in Chicago’s Lead Crisis. To promote healthy lifestyles the NAACP has partnered with local hospitals for the 90- Day Challenge.
Education
The NAACP is working to ensure that every child graduates from school ready to take on the world. The NAACP Southside Branch is working to increase funding to communities and students that are undeserved. All students can be college and career ready when the path to success is laid out and supported by teachers, students, parents, disciplinary committees, and local districts.
Development
The NAACP is working around the clock to ensure Economic Freedom for all under-served communities . For centuries, communities of color have been cut out of the American Dream. Now we are working to empower local communities with the education, resources, and partnerships to develop sustainable economic models.
Voting Rights/ Civil Engagement
The NAACP Southside Branch and all its members are advocates at the forefront of raising awareness for political, social, and economic equality in the electoral process. Whether the branch is hosting public forums for elections or pushing redistricting reform, the Southside is working to make democracy live up to its name.
The NAACP must be so strong in numbers and so effective in method that no one-no Mayor of any city, no Governor of any state, no Congressman of any party,no president of the United States, no Foreign Ambassador will dare to commit any indignity against people of color without realizing the NAACP will challenge them on the platform, in the press, in the courts, in the streets and at the ballot box.
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Mission
“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.”
Vision
“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.”
Objectives
“The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution – the principal objectives of the Association shall be:
- 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 thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP’s Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.