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We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination.

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 principal objectives of the Association shall be: 

1. To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic quality of all citizens.
 

2. To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States.
 

3. To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
 

4. To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights.
 

5. To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination.
 

6. To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution. 

 The Killeen Branch #6189 NAACP was established in July 1970. The Branch meets the third Monday of each month at 6:15PM. Meetings are open to the public.

In 1970, a group of concerned Killeen Citizens met to discuss the closure of Marlboro Elementary School, which had been declared "Racially Unbalanced" by the Killeen Independent School District. The students attending Marlboro Elementary were all African Americans. Those concerned citizens decided to seek assistance from the NAACP Regional and Field Office.
These seven citizens were officially charged as an NAACP Committee with the sole purpose of organizing a Branch in Killeen.
This committee was successful in securing more than the required number of members and a NAACP Charter was granted to Killeen on July 2, 1970. The citizens who spear headed this effort was: Mr. Willie Gibson, Mr. Reuben Hatcher, Mrs. Catherine Hatcher, Mr. Willie Jefferson, Mr. Napoleon May, Mr. Clyde Williams, and Mr. Clifford Young.
Through the effort of this newly formed Branch, Marlboro Elementary was later reopened and white students were bussed into the school in an effort to eliminate the "Racially Unbalanced" situation. The schools in KISD were becoming integrated for the first time. Since that time, the Killeen Branch has been successful in eliminating many acts of discrimination in employment and promotion opportunities to include housing within the Killeen-Fort Hood area.