Washington, DC—NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, today congratulated the NAACP on 100 years of progress in civil rights. The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, is holding its Centennial Convention in New York City.
“For 100 years, the NAACP has opened up opportunities and broken down barriers, from which many other generations of Americans have benefitted,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO. “For 40 years, NCLR has stood shoulder to shoulder with the Black community to promote equal opportunity for all Americans. We celebrate this historic milestone with the NAACP and wish them well as they celebrate a century of service to America.”
NCLR traces its own origins to the civil rights movement of the 1960s when Hispanic activists supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Both organizations have worked closely on efforts to improve voting rights, civil rights, education, housing policy, and access to health care, and to advance opportunities for all Americans.
“When I was honored to speak at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Breakfast in Birmingham last year, there was still much work to be done to address the challenges our nation faced,” Murguía added. “The Black and Latino communities today have much in common and seek the same American Dream for all of our families. Over the upcoming weeks and months, NCLR and the NAACP will work together to ensure that every child has access to quality health care. We urge all Americans to join us in this fight.”
For more information about NCLR, please visit www.nclr.org.
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