CivilRights.org

CivilRights.org "is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Its mission: to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information.

"The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) was founded in 1950 by three giants of the civil rights movement: A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP; and Arnold Aronson, a leader of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. It is the nation's premier civil rights coalition, and has coordinated the national legislative campaign on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957.

"Founded in 1969 as the education and research arm of the civil rights coalition, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) promotes an understanding of the need for national policies that support civil rights and social and economic justice, and encourages an appreciation of the nation's diversity. LCEF initiatives are grounded in the belief that an informed public is more likely to support effective federal civil rights and social justice policies."

People
Accessed November 2008:


 * Wade Henderson - President and CEO of LCCR
 * Karen McGill Lawson - President and CEO of LCCREF
 * Nancy Zirkin - Executive Vice President of LCCR
 * Karen DeWitt, Vice President for Content and Framing
 * Mark Lloyd, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Executive Committee
Accessed November 2008:

Officers


 * Dorothy I. Height - Chair
 * Vice Chairs - Judith Lichtman, Karen K. Narasaki, William Taylor
 * Secretary - William D. Novelli
 * Treasurer - Gerald W. McEntee

Council Emeritus
 * Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.

Honorary Chairpersons


 * Marvin Caplin
 * Benjamin L. Hooks
 * Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.civilrights.org

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * John Shattuck