Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.
The Wichita Branch NAACP was formed in 1920 by Dr. Gratz Brown and founder of the Negro Star, H. T. Sims.
The branch continues to carry out the mission of the organization by;
- CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Engaged in increasing the responsiveness of citizens to be fully engaged in the democratic process
- ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: Works to enhance the capacity of underserved groups, through financial economic education, promoting diversity in business hiring, career advancement, procurement and promoting community economic development
- EDUCATION: Strives to ensure that all students have access to an equal and high-quality public education by eliminating ethnic disparities in our public schools
- HEALTH: African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality rates from chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. HIV and infant mortality have continued to overwhelm the Black community
- JUSTICE: Advocates for advancement of a better public safety system that reduces the reliance on prisons as means of solving social problems, advances effective law enforcement and removes barriers to voting and employment for formerly incarcerated people
Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization.
The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call.
The NAACP’s principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes.
Visit Us
- Membership Meeting 2nd Tuesday of every month via zoom
- 2821 E 24th St N, Wichita, KS 67214
- info@WichitaNaacpks.org
- (866) 591-1196
We are an all-volunteer organization - Please call or email to get in contact with us.
