About Us
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The NAACP Rochester, NY Branch 2172 was chartered on December 7, 1919. The first elected officers were sworn in January, 1920.
After our doors closed in 2011, the initiative to reinstate our branch began in November 2019. After nearly nine years of inactivity, our branch was reinstated on January 16, 2021.
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We will celebrate 104 years on December 7, 2023. With your support, we will be able to keep the doors of this historic civil rights organization opened so that we can continue to serve the Greater Rochester, NY Community.
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Rochester, NY NAACP Branch #2172
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Rochester, NY NAACP Branch 1st Elected Officers, January 1920
(Democrat & Chronicle)
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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
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"If we deny full expression to a race, if we restrict its education, stifle its intellectual and aesthetic impulses, we make it impossible to fairly gauge its ability"
-Mary White Ovington
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"We are Fighting and Moving Forward"

Our Mission
Our mission is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to .eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the .health and well-being of all persons
Our Vision
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.
Our Objectives:
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To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens.
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To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States.
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To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
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To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights.
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To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination.
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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 Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.