Justice Coalition

The Mission of the NAACP 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.”

The Justice Coalition is comprised of respected NAACP leaders and some of the organization’s most active members from across the country (including lifetime members, and local, state, and national officers). All of us have, to the limits of our ability, shared our time, treasure, and talents in pursuit of that mission.
We do our work within the framework of the NAACP Constitution and Bylaws. We are guided by the principle set forth so eloquently by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”. No punitive measure handed down by the current President and CEO Derrick Johnson can change the fact that we are proud members of the NAACP - proud of our organization and its rich history, proud of our mission, and proud of the work that we are privileged to do. You will find us speaking truth to power in our communities, in our municipalities and counties, in our state legislatures and executive offices, and in Washington, DC.
Now we find ourselves compelled to demand justice from, President Derrick Johnson and the National Board of Directors of the NAACP.

The Justice Coalition was created in October of 2021 by a group of NC NAACP members who were aggrieved by as botched a State Conference Election as one could possibly imagine - especially in an organization as concerned about, free, fair, and transparent elections as the NAACP. The election was conducted as the North Carolina State Conference of Branches was under Administratorship based on “numerous complaints” that the President of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches, Rev. Dr. T Anthony Spearman. could never substantiate or repudiate because he was never shown any complaints. Those who put the state conference under administratorship are either unfamiliar or unconcerned with the NAACP Constitution and bylaws and demonstrate no regard for the most basic concepts of due process.

As the NC Justice Coalition organized, strategized, and began to publicize, a funny thing happened. We began to hear from disaffected NAACP members in other states who had endured similar injustices at the hands of NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, Board of Directors Chair Leon Russel, and Gloria Sweetlove, President of The Tennessee State Conference of Branches of the NAACP, National Board of Directors Member, and Administrator of the NorthCarolina State Conference of Branches. As we included members from Georgia, Louisiana, and San Diego, CA. in our conversations, a clear pattern of retribution from the NAACP executive office and the Board of Directors of the NAACP emerged in which state conferences and local branches are placed under administratorship and individual members are suspended whenever the judgment or authority of those in the national office is challenged.
Our mission statement and Constitution compel us to stand up to those who would ignore or deliberately distort our organization’s constitution and bylaws, and deny due process to its own members, in order to usurp the power that rightly belongs to state conferences and local branches where our organization’s mission is executed.
The work of the Justice Coalition is not an attack on the organization we are all dedicated to. Rather, we are fighting to defend our association’s mission, to uphold its constitution, and to restore it to an organization that honors the rights of “all persons”, including those of its own members.

To learn more about why the Moore County NAACP supports the NAACP Justice Coalition, please visit the website, justicecoalitionusa.org.

You can also find articles about the Justice Coalition in our News&Notes.