From convening to coalition-building to constructive confrontation and mobilization, we march on for an America that lives up to its ideals. With nearly 75 years of building bonds that bind beyond politics, we do not fall prey to the distractions of division. We continue to take up the action of accountability and the hard work of repairing the fabric of multiracial coalition-building to save and expand a rights-rich democracy that solves our collective problems rather than inciting hate, violence, and exclusion.
— Maya Wiley, President and CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition of more than 200 organizations fighting to protect, defend, and expand the rights of every single person in the United States. Born out of the Civil Rights Movement, for nearly 75 years LCCHR has been an essential convener, thought leader, and advocate for public policies that make our country more fair and more free.
The Leadership Conference is a 501(c)(4) organization that engages in legislative advocacy. It was founded in 1950 and has coordinated national lobbying efforts on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957.