Legislative

Established June 1, 1941, the NAACP Washington Bureau is the federal legislative liaison and national public policy office of the NAACP. For more than 55 years the NAACP Washington Bureau has been the premier civil rights advocacy entity on Capitol Hill; the Bureau was a leading force behind the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1968 Fair Housing Act, the 1991 Civil Rights Restoration Act and the 2002 Help America Vote Act, the most current reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act among countless others. The Washington Bureau has been lead in the past by such greats as Clarence Mitchell (1950 - 1978), who was known as the "101st Senator"; Althea Simmons (1979 - 1990) and Wade Henderson (1990 - 1996).

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