NAACP Fairfax County

In a time of police brutality, lynching, "colored" restroom and water fountains, segregated housing and employment discrimination, the National Association for the Advancement of Color People was born. Fairfax County NAACP was the first rural branch chartered and today stands as one of the most active and engaged branches in the country.

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 racial hatred and racial discrimination. The principal objectives of the NAACP are to:

• Ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens

• Achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States
• Remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
• Seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
• Inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
• 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.