Racial Violence in Florida

NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.

The ACLU is the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Launched in December 2014 by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), the #SayHerName campaign brings awareness to the often invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence, and provides support to their families.

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) launched the Vision for Black Lives, a comprehensive and visionary policy agenda for the post-Ferguson Black liberation movement, in August of 2016. The Vision, endorsed by over 50 Black-led organizations in the M4BL ecosystem and hundreds of allied organizations and individuals, has since inspired campaigns across the country to achieve its goals.

Campaign Zero encourages policymakers to focus on solutions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness at reducing police violence.

The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.

Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue

The ACLU of Florida has a permanent presence in Orlando, where our Organizing Manager is located to coordinate advocacy efforts across the state, and in Tallahassee where our Legislative Counsel works to ensure Florida lawmakers do not pass anti-civil liberties bills that violate the rights of all Floridians. Other regional offices are located in: Jacksonville, Pensacola and Tampa.

The Dream Defenders was founded in April 2012 after the tragic killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. That Spring, young Black, Latinx, and Arab youth marched from Daytona Beach Florida to Sanford Florida where Trayvon Martin was killed. With that fire in their bellies, they then went back to their communities and campuses to organize.

Public Allies is a social justice organization committed to changing the face and practice of leadership by recruiting and training talented young leaders, with a passion for social impact, to create meaningful change in our community.

The mission of the Volusia Remembers Coalition is to remember, acknowledge and reflect upon our history of racial terror by partnering with the Equal Justice initiative to install monuments to victims of lynching in Volusia County, Florida.