The Kankakee County Branch of the NAACP sponsors a variety of programs to make real the promise of America. Our programs are designed to ensure civil rights compliance, equitable treatment of all Americans under law, the attainment of educational excellence, access to health care, and economic empowerment. Our political empowerment initiative is devoted to that most fundamental right of all Americans, fully participatory democracy. Striving to improve the political, educational, social, and economic status of minority groups and works to eliminate racial prejudice.