​About Us

Our Mission

Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.
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Our Vision

We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination.
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Our Objectives

• 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

NAACP Austin Accomplishments

• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Austin Urban League Whitney Young Award, 2009
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the National NAACP Rupert Richardson Award, July 2012
• Mr. Nelson Linder, winner of the University of Texas - Dr. James Hill Community Circle Award, December 2012
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Delta Sigma Theta Austin Chapter Political Activism Award, April 2013
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Story Changer Award, 2013
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the National League of Cities Award, 2014
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Community Star Award, 2014
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Cesar Chavez Award from PODER, 2015
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the KAZI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Precinct #1 Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Winner of the Austin Community College Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018
• Mr. Nelson Linder, Excellence in Community Service Award, 2019