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Protecting our 2025
The Arkansas State Conference provides leadership for local branches, youth councils, and college chapters.
Joining a local unit is the best way to make a difference. African Americans and other people of color face the possibilities of injustice, inequality and discrimination every day. It may be on the job, at work, in education, in public, in the political arena or anywhere.
Arkansas is facing many changes in 2025. Our governing body has initiated the Arkansas Learns Act and the Protect Arkansas Act. Our job will be to monitor the results of these new laws and be sure that justice and equality is served. We have work to do. It is our RIGHT. Therefore, we need ALL people who believe in the mission to work in your respective communities.
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President Barry Jefferson
Welcome to the Arkansas State Conference

Under the leadership of President Barry Jefferson, our mission has remained unchanged since our founding in 1909. We are here to lead a community of activists to advocate for the civil rights of people of color. People of color deserve equal treatment in the workforce, economics, education, politics, health, and society. We have a rich heritage. Our ancestors lost their lives in a struggling society, but now we fight to keep our place of freedom in a FREE SOCIETY.
We believe everyone should be treated with the same fairness and justice and be empowered to participate in all social, cultural, and economic aspects of life.
Everything we initiate and accomplish is to result in a more THRIVING community of minority individuals and their families.
The 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.
The Vision
We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination.
