Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations

A. Philip Randolph Institute

AFL-CIO Committee on Civil Rights

Africa Watch

African Academy of Arts and Research

African Aid Society

African American AIDS Associations

African American Lesbian and Gay Associations

African-American Lutheran Association

African-American Museums Association

African American Women's Clergy Association

African Americans for Humanism

African Blood Brotherhood for Liberation and Redemption

African Civilization Society

African Heritage Studies Association

Afro-American Council

Afro-American Federation of Labor

Afro-American Party

Afro-American Police League

Afro-American Press Association

Afro-American Republican League of Pennsylvania

Afro-American Research Institute

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Alabama Council on Human Relations

Alabama Share Croppers Union

All-African People's Revolutionary Party

Alley Improvement Association, Washington, D.C.

Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha

American Academy of Medical Directors

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

American Anti-Slavery Society

American Association for Affirmative Action

American Association of Blacks in Energy

American Baptist Black Caucus

American Baptist Home Missionary Society

American Church Institute for Negroes, Episcopal Church

American Citizens' Equal Rights Association

American Colonization Society

American Committee on Africa

American Council on Race Rotations

American Freedmen's Union Commission

American League of Colored Laborers

American Missionary Association

American Moral Reform Society

American National Baptist Convention

American Negro Academy

American Negro Historical Society, Philadelphia

American Negro Labor Congress

American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa

American Society of African Culture

American Teachers Association

American Tennis Association

Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine

Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

Arkansas Commission on Race Relations

Arkansas Council on Human Relations

Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History

Association of African and African-American Folklorists

Association of Black Admissions and Financial Aid Officers of the Ivy League and Sister Schools

Association of Black American Ambassadors

Association of Black Anthropologists

Association of Black Cardiologists

Association of Black Catholics Against Abortion

Association of Black Psychologists

Association of Black Sociologists

Association of Black Women Historians

Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes

Association of Deans of Women and Advisers to Girls in Negro Schools

Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching

Atlanta Conferences for the Study of Negro Problems

Atlanta Negro Voters League

Atlanta Neighborhood Union

Baltimore: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People

Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States

Baseball Hall of Fame, Negro Leagues

Bay Area Council Against Discrimination

Bethel Literary and Historical Association

Big Eight Council on Black Student Governments

Birmingham, Alabama: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Black Affairs Council, Unitarian Universalist

Black and Tan Republicans

Black Caucus of the American Library Association

Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English and Conference on College Composition and Communication

Black Coaches Association

Black Council, Reformed Church in America

Black Emergency Cultural Coalition

Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association

Black Filmmaker Foundation

Black Gold Star Mothers

Black Methodists for Church Renewal

Black Panther Party (for Self-Defense)

Black Public Relations Society of America

Black Rock Coalition

Black Stuntmen's Association

Black Women Organized for Action

Black Women Organized for Educational Development

Black Women's Educational Alliance

Black Women's Liberation Committee

Blacks in Government

Blue Circle Nurses

Boston: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Boston Literary and Historical Association

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Bureau for Colored Troops

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

California Council for Civic Unity

Center for Democratic Renewal

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Central Trades and Labor Assembly

Chi Eta Phi

Chicago: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Chicago Commission on Race Relations

Chicago Mayor's Committee on Race Relations

Cincinnati: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Cincinnati's Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee

CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination

Circle for Negro War Relief

Citizens' League for Fair Play

Civil Rights Congress

Cleveland: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Coalition Against Blaxploitation

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

College Language Association

Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission

Colored Conventions

Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union

Colored Knights of Pythias

Colored Merchants Association

Colored National Labor Union

Columbus, Ohio: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Comité des Citoyens

Commission for Multicultural Ministries, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training

Committee for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ

Committee for the Advancement of Colored Catholics

Committee for the Participation of Negroes in the National Defense

Committee for Welfare, Education, and Legal Defense

Committee on Negro Housing

Committee on Negro Troop Policies

Committee on Race and Caste in World Affairs

Community Relations Service

Conference of Church Workers Among Colored People, Episcopal Church

Conference of Presidents of Negro Land-Grant Colleges

Congress of Racial Equality

Congressional Black Caucus

Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities

Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention

Coordinating Council for Negro Performers, Inc.

Council for a Black Economic Agenda

Council for Civic Unity, San Francisco

Council for United Civil Rights Leadership

Council of 1890 College Presidents

Council of Federated Organizations

Council of Social Agencies, Pasadena, California, Interracial Commission

Council on African Affairs

Dallas: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Dayton, Ohio: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Deacons for Defense

Delta Ministry

Delta Sigma Theta

Denver Colored Civic Association

Denver Interracial Commission

Denver Unity Council

Denver's Mayor's Interim Survey Committee on Human Relations

Department of Work for Colored People, Presbyterian Church

Detroit: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Detroit Interracial Committee

East Bay Negro Historical Society

Eastern Colored League

Episcopal Commission for Black Ministries

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Equal Suffrage League

Eta Phi Beta

Fahy Committee

Fair Employment Practice Committee

Fair Share Organization

Federal Council on Negro Affairs

Federated Colored Catholics of the United States

Federated Council of Churches, Department of Race Relations

Federated Council of Churches, Department of Racial and Cultural Relations

Federation of Southern Cooperatives

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Fellowship of Southern Churchmen

Florida Council on Human Relations

Fraternal Council of Negro Churches

Free African Societies

Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Freedmen's Aid Society, London

Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Freedom and Peace Party

French American Fellowship

Friends of Negro Freedom

Fruit of Islam

General Commission on Religion and Race, United Methodist Church

General Education Board

Genesis Group, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Georgia Council on Human Relations

Gospel Music Workshop of America

Government Contract Compliance Committee

Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots

Governor's Human Rights Commission, Wisconsin

Governor's Interracial Commission, Minnesota

Grand United Order of Moses

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

Grand United Order of True Reformers

Greater New York Coordinating Committee for Employment

Guardians Association

Harlem Tenant League

Harmon Foundation

Haryou

Hatza'ad Harishon

Hoover's Colored Advisory Commission

Houston: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Ida B.Wells Social Club

Illinois Commission on Human Relations

Illinois Department of Human Rights

Illinois Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Illinois Interracial Commission

Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the World

Independent National Funeral Directors Association

Independent Order of Good Templars

Independent Order of St. Luke

Indianapolis: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Indianapolis Community Relations Council

Institute for Black Family Development

Intercollegiate Pentecostal Conference International

International Association of African and American Black Business People

International Association of Black Business Educators

International Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters

International Baseball League

International Black Writers and Artists

International Brotherhood of Red Caps

International Council of Women of the Darker Races

International Fellowship of Black Pentecostal Churches, Intercollegiate Pentecostal Conference International

International League

International Migration Society

International Rhythm and Blues Association

International Working People's Association

Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization

Interscholastic Athletic Association

Interstate Dental Association

Iota Phi Lambda

Iota Phi Theta

Jack and Jill of America, Inc.

Jackie Robinson Foundation

Jacksonville, Florida: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Jazz Composers Guild

Jeanes Fund

John F.Slater Fund

Joint Committee on National Recovery

Julia Ward Howe Republican Women's Club

Julius Rosenwald Fund

Kansas Commission on Civil Rights

Kansas Human Rights Commission

Kappa Alpha Psi

Knights of Peter Claver

Langston Hughes Society

Leadership Conference for Civil Rights

League of Colored Baseball Clubs

League of Revolutionary Black Workers

League of Struggle for Negro Rights

League of Women for Community Service, Boston

Liberian Development Association

Liberty Party

Library Company of Colored Persons, Philadelphia

The Links Incorporated

Little Rock, Arkansas: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

London Emancipation Society

Lone Star Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association

Los Angeles: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention

Louisiana Council on Human Relations

Louisville, Kentucky: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Lynn Committee to Abolish Segregation in the Armed Forces

Malcolm X Society

Manumission Societies

March on Washington Committee

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Massachusetts General Colored Association

Medical Committee for Human Rights

Medico-Chirurgical Society, Washington, D.C.

Memphis: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Memphis Lyceum

Miami: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Michigan Commission on Civil Rights

Michigan Committee for Intercultural Understanding

Middle States Baseball League

Milwaukee: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Milwaukee's Mayor's Commission on Human Rights

Ministers for Racial and Social Justice

Minneapolis' Mayor's Council on Human Relations

Minnesota Fair Employment Practice Commission

Minority Business Development Agency

Minority Women in Science

Mississippi Council on Human Relations

Mississippi freedom Democratic Party

Mississippi Progressive Voters' League

Montgomery Improvement Association

Moorish Science Temple of America

Mosaic Templars of America

Move

Mutual Musicians' Foundation

Nashville: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Nashville Student Movement

Nation of Islam

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)

National Advisory Committee on Black Higher Education and Black Colleges and Universities

National Afro-American League

National Airmen's Association of America

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

National Alliance of Black Organizations

National Alliance of Black School Educators

National Alliance of Postal Employees

National Association for African American Heritage Preservation

National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education

National Association for the Advancement of Black Americans in Vocational Education

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Promotion of Trade Unionism Among Negroes

National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children

National Association of African American Studies

National Association of Black Accountants

National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists

National Association of Black Journalists

National Association of Black Real Estate Professionals

National Association of Black Social Workers

National Association of Black Storytellers

National Association of Black Women Attorneys

National Association of Black Women Entrepreneurs

National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice

National Association of College Deans, Registrars, and Admissions Officers

National Association of College Women

National Association of Colored Girls

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses

National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.

National Association of Extension Home Economists

National Association of Health Services Executives

National Association of Human Rights Workers

National Association of Management Consultants

National Association of Market Developers

National Association of Minority Architects

National Association of Minority Women in Business

National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs

National Association of Negro Musicians

National Association of Personnel Deans and Advisers of Men in Negro Institutions

National Association of Personnel Workers

National Association of Real Estate Brokers

National Association of Securities Professionals

National Baptist Convention of America

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

National Baptist Educational Convention

National Bar Association

National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus

National Black Catholic Congress

National Black Catholic Lay Caucus

National Black Catholic Seminarian Association

National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials

National Black Caucus of State Legislators

National Black Chambers of Commerce

National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees

National Black Evangelical Association

National Black Feminist Organization

National Black Leadership Roundtable

National Black MBA Association

National Black McDonald's Operators Association

National Black Music Caucus of the Music Educators National Conference

National Black Police Association

National Black Presbyterian Caucus

National Black Sisters' Conference

National Black Women's Health Project

National Black Women's Political Leadership Caucus

National Bowling Association

National Brotherhood Workers of America

National Business League

National Citizens' Rights Association

National Civil Rights Committee of the American Veterans Committee

National Coalition of Black Meeting Planners

National Coalition of 100 Black Women

National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing

National Committee of Negro Veteran Relief

National Committee on Segregation in the Nation's Capital

National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax

National Conference of Black Churchmen

National Conference of Black Lawyers

National Conference of Editorial Writers

National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers

National Council for a Permanent FEPC

National Council for Black Studies

National Council of Churches, Commission on Religion and Race

National Council of Negro Women

National Council of Negro Youth

National Democratic Party of Alabama

National Dental Association

National Domestic Workers Union

National Economic Association

National Equal Rights League

National Forum for Black Public Administrators

National Freedmen's Relief Association

National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association

National Health Circle for Colored People

National Hospital Association

National Institute of Science

National Insurance Association

National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament

National Lawyers Guild

National Medical Association

National Negro Baseball Leagues

National Negro Congress

National Negro Labor Council

National Newspaper Publishers Association

National Office for Black Catholics

National Optometric Association

National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers

National Organization of Black County Officials

National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc.

National Pharmaceutical Association

National Political Congress of Black Women

National Rainbow Coalition

National Society of Black Engineers

National Society of Black Physicists

National Student Association

National Technical Association

National Urban League

National Welfare Rights Organization

National Women's Committee for Civil Rights

National Youth Administration, Office of Negro Affairs

Negro Actors Guild of America

Negro Airmen International

Negro American Labor Council

Negro American League

Negro Christian Student Conference

Negro Equity League of San Francisco

Negro Fellowship League

Negro Industrial and Clerical Alliance

Negro Labor Committee

Negro Medical Association of Virginia

Negro National League

Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee

Negro Rural School Fund

Negro Service Committee of the United Service Organizations

Negro Society for Historical Research

Negro Southern League

Negro Theatre Guild

New England Anti-Slavery Society

New England Freedmen's Aid Society

New Negro Alliance

New York African Clarkson Association

New York City: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

New York City Commission on Human Rights

New York Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem

New York State Commission Against Discrimination

New York's Mayor's Committee on Unity

Niagara Movement

Norfolk, Virginia: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

North Carolina Council on Human Relations

Northern Student Movement

Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission

Oblate Sisters of Providence

Odd Fellows

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

Office of Minority Business Development

Office of Production Management, Minorities (or Minority Groups) Branch

Ohio Commission for Fair Employment Practices Legislation

Old Dominion Medical Society

Old North State Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Society

Omaha, Nebraska: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

100 Black Men of America, Inc.

One Hundred Men

Operation Breadbasket

Order of Moses

Order of St. Luke

Order of the Eastern Star

Oregon Civil Rights Advisory Committee

Oregon Fair Employment Practices Advisory Committee

Oregon Human Rights Advisory Council

Organization of Afro-American Unity

Organization of Black Airline Pilots

Organization of Black Episcopal Seminarians

Organization off Black Screenwriters, Inc.

Palmetto State Medical Association

Pan-African Congress

Partners for Progress

Peabody Education Fund

Peace and freedom Party

Peace Mission Movement

Pennsylvania Fteedmen's Relief Association

People United to Save Humanity

Phelps-Stokes Fund

Phi Beta Sigma

Philadelphia: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Phoenix: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Phyllis Wheatley Women's Clubs and Homes

Pittsburgh: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Poor People's Campaign

Potomac Institute

Presbyterian Church Committee on Missions to Freedmen

President's Commission on Campus Unrest

President's Committee on Civil Rights

President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity

President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing

President's Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (The Gesell Committee)

President's Committee on Equality of treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces (The Fahy Committee)

President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice

President's Committee on Government Contracts

President's Committee on Government Employment Policy

President's Initiative on Race

Prince Hall Masons

Progressive National Baptist Convention

Provisional Committee to Organize Colored Locomotive Firemen

Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association

Rainbow Coalition

Readjusters

Reformed Church in America, Black Council

Reparations Committee of Descendants of U.S. Slaves, Inc.

Richmond, Virginia: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Richmond Medical Society

Robert Tanner Freeman Dental Society

St. Louis: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

San Francisco: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Savannah: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Savannah Education Association

Save Our Schools

Seattle: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Seattle Civic Unity Committee

Secretariat for Black Catholics

Secretary for Negro Work, Episcopal Church

Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc.

Sigma Gamma Rho

Sigma Pi Phi

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People

Sisters of the Holy Family

Slater Fund

Social Workers' Club

Society for the Collection of Negro Folk Lore, Boston

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage

Society for the Study of Black Religion

Society of Black Composers

Society of the Divine Word

Sojourner Truth Citizens Committee

South Carolina Committee on Interracial Cooperation

South Carolina Council for Human Rights

South Carolina Council on Human Relations

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Southern Coalition for Educational Equity

Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching

Southern Conference Educational Fund

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies

Southern Education Foundation

Southern Legislative Research Council

Southern Negro Youth Congress

Southern Organization for United Leadership

Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice

Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Regional Council

Southern Society for the Promotion of the Study of Race Conditions and Problems in the South

Southern Sociological Congress

Southern Student Human Relations Project

Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

Special Committee on Negroes and Economic Reconstruction

State Council for a Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practices Commission

Student National Pharmaceutical Association

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Tennessee Council on Human Relations

Theater Owners Booking Association

Topeka, Kansas: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Trade Union Leadership Council

Trade Union Unity League

TransAfrica

Tri-State Dental Association of DC, VA, MD

Tuskegee Conference

Twelve Knights of Tabor

Union League

Union of Black Clergy and Laity

Union of Black Episcopalians

United African Nationalist Movement

United Auto Workers: Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department

United Black Christians, United Church of Christ Inc.

United Black Churchmen, United Church of Christ Inc.

United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten

United Colored Democracy

United Golfers Association

United Lutherans for Black Concerns

United Negro and Allied Veterans of America, Inc.

United Negro Bus Strike Committee

United Negro College Fund

United Slaves

United States Commission on Civil Rights

United States Student Association

United Transatlantic Society

United Transport Service Employees of America

Universal African Nationalist Movement

Universal Association of Ethiopian Women

Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

University Commission on Southern Race Questions

Urban League

Us

Virginia Council on Human Relations

Visions Foundation

Voter Education Project

War Manpower Commission, Negro Manpower Service

War Production Board, Negro Employment and Training Branch

Washington, D.C.: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations

Washington State Board Against Discrimination in Employment

Washington State Fair Employment Practices Committee

West Coast Baseball Association

Western Freedmen's Aid Commission

Women Wage Earner's Association

Women's Christian Temperance Union, Department of Colored Work

Women's Day Workers and Industrial League

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church

Women's Volunteer Service League

Young Men's Christian Association, Colored Work Department

Young Women's Christian Association, Council on Colored Work

Zeta Phi Beta

Zora Neale Hurston Society

National Association of Black Scuba Divers

National Association of Minority Contractors

National Bankers Association