Events

The East County NAACP meets twice a month at the African American Holistic Wellness & Resource Hub – The General Meeting is at the end of the month, its opem to the public.The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, in response to a violent race riot in Springfield, Illinois, and the ongoing violence of lynching. It is the oldest and largest grassroots civil rights organization in the U.S., with a mission to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of minority citizens. The NAACP's history is marked by legal challenges, political lobbying, and public education campaigns that have been instrumental in major civil rights victories, such as the desegregation of schools in Brown v. Board of Education and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.