Joliet Branch # 3018
​The Joliet Branch of the NAACP was founded in 1941. Claude Wilson,
businessman, was the Branch’s first President. The Branch was founded to
specifically confront hiring practices at the Joliet arsenal: “Blacks were
used to dig ditches, but excluded from the jobs in the offices and on the
assembly lines.”

Dr. D.A. “Dovie” Harris served as President in the early 1960s at a time
when women were not allowed membership in other civic clubs in
Joliet.

Other Presidents included Verne Dillon, Joliet Council on Human
Relations founder and Joliet’s first Black City Councilman, elected in
1965, and Raymond Bolden, longtime Civil Rights activist and retired
Circuit Court Judge. 
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Mission Statement
​The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.


Vision Statement
The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.


Objectives
The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution - the principal objectives of the Association shall be:
  • To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens
  • To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States
  • To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
  • To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
  • To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
  • To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.
Executive Team
Branch President - Mike Clark
Secretary - Luvenia Betts
Judy Easley - Vice President
Marcus Mars - 2nd Vice President
Chandra Allgood-Foster - Treasurer