The NAACP Stands for Equality

For Immediate Release

March 25, 2019

For more than 100 years the NAACP has been an advocate for civil rights. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supports Title IX.

We cannot allow further erosion of civil rights in Missouri by allowing protections against sexual assault on college campuses through Title IX to be taken away. Missouri needs help enforcing the protection of civil rights and can do better. The NAACP Travel Advisory remains in effect. Missouri is still harboring criminal justice and civil rights violations including:

- the disproportionate driving while Black (DWB) contact as quantified through the Vehicle Stops Report;

- murders of individuals like Tory Sander that have NOT been charged;

- stripping minorities of the ability to protect themselves from the harms of discrimination through the state court system;

- keeping men like Marcellus Williams from finding justice through the criminal Courts; and

- a failure to investigate the complaints of students who experience civil rights violations occurring across campuses.

The national leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been firm in support of Title IX and the protections offered through it. We sued the federal government to prevent poorly guided leadership from ignoring basic human rights to be free from assault. We offered comment to proposed rule changes to Title IX in conjunction with civil rights organizations all over the county. 

Be clear, the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP is in alignment with the National NAACP and supports Title IX and no unit has taken a position contrary to that in our state. Our organization believes in civil rights for everyone.

The most important thing for you to know is that the work continues. From advocating for equality, to litigating discrimination and its effects, to agitating for voting rights in opposition to Voter ID, the work is going strong.

Thank you for your support.

Nimrod Chapel, Jr.

President

Missouri State Conference

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