NAACP
Hillary O. Shelton, Director, Washington Bureau Senior Vice President for Policy and Advocacy
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is the Nation’s oldest, largest, and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization, with more than 1,200 active membership units across the United States. Hilary O. Shelton has been the Director of the Washington Bureau, the NAACP’s Federal legislative and political advocacy arm, for more than 17 years. Prior to that, he was Federal Liaison/Assistant Director to the Government Affairs Department of The College Fund/United Negro College Fund. The following is from September 9, 2014, hearings before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on “Oversight…
