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For over a half century, LCCR has led the fight for equal opportunity and social justice.
During a time of hatred and violence in the segregated South, LCCR fought for the voting rights of millions of African Americans. LCCR used its resource to battle against unfair housing and employment practices that put a stain on the American ideal. When black children were denied the right to an equal education, LCCR used the Supreme Court to open school doors.
Today, LCCR has become the nerve center for the struggle against discrimination in all its forms. LCCR is the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, committed to the protection and advancement of basic civil rights for all persons in the nation.
LCCR was founded in 1950 by A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; and Arnold Aronson, a leader of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. Their visionary leadership was grounded in their commitment to social justice and the firm conviction that the struggle for civil rights would be won, not by one group alone, but through coalition.
LCCR lobbied for and won the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 —laws that shaped the future.
LCCR also helped to organize one of the most unprecedented events in the 20th Century —the 1963 March on Washington.
As LCCR has grown in numbers, scope, and effectiveness over the years, its commitment to social justice remains the same.
At the dawn of a new millennium, when the nation's future depends upon finding new ways for the world's most diverse people to live and work together, LCCR's cause is more timely than ever.
That cause is defined by the timeless values LCCR has advanced since its inception —an America true to its promise of equal justice, equal opportunity, and mutual respect.
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