ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is a membership organization of low-and-moderate income tenants, workers, residents, fighting for a better life for communities. ACORN uses direct action to defend and improve communities and neighborhoods.

The American Civil Liberties Union is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States".

The Anne Frank Center USA is a nonprofit organization with a focus on civil and human rights activism in the United States.

AJSOCAL is a social justice organization that protects and strengthens the rights and dignity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, especially those that are most disadvantaged.

Campus Pride is an American national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded by M. Chad Wilson, Sarah E. Holmes and Shane L. Windmeyer in 2001 which serves lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and ally student leaders and/or campus organization in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBT-friendly colleges and universities.

Color of Change is a progressive nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization in the United States. It was formed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in order to use online resources to strengthen the political voice of African Americans.

Democracy Matters is an American non-profit, non-partisan grassroots student political organization that is dedicated to deepening democracy.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education is a non-profit organization which advances pan-ethnic civil rights and human rights through education.

The Human Rights Action Center (HRAC) is a voice for the voiceless and an advocate for human rights for all of the world. HRAC partners with leaders in the creative arts world (music, theater, film, written word) to focus awareness on areas of critical importance in the struggle for human rights and lend a hand to some of the less-publicized cases of human rights abuse and neglect. 

Human Rights Defense Center is a non-profit 501 organization that campaigns on behalf of prisoner rights across the United States.

Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. It defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, or simply the Lawyers' Committee, is a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a national non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 by Jack Greenberg to protect the rights of Latinos in the United States.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States. It was formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is an American conservative anti-pornography organization1. It was founded in 1962 and advocates for a world free from all forms of sexual exploitation2. NCOSE is a leading 501c (3) non-profit organization that exposes the links between all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation.

The National Urban League, formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

The New Israel Fund is a United States-based non-profit NGO established in 1979. It describes its objective as social justice and equality for all Israelis.

Not In Our Town is a movement to stop hate, racism and bullying, and build safe, inclusive communities for all. It uses documentary film, new media, and organizing to stop hate, address bullying, and build safe, inclusive communities.

Rise are leaders from some of the largest grassroots organizing moments in recent US history, and have gathered their experience to teach how to pass your own law.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American 501 nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

Texas Civil Rights Project is a 501 nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, that advocates for voting rights, racial and economic justice, and criminal justice reform. It was formed in 1990 by attorney James C. Harrington.

The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is an international nonprofit dedicated to healing survivors of torture and violent conflict. They work towards a future in which torture ceases to exist and its victims have hope for a new life.

The US Human Rights Network (USHRN) is a national network composed of over 200 self-identified grassroots human rights organizations and over 700 individuals working to strengthen what they regard as the protection of human rights in the United States. 

United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund (UEAALDF) is a coalition of student organizers, activists, and attorneys committed to achieving integration and equality in America.

The Alaska Innocence Project is a non-profit organization designed to assist people who have been wrongly convicted and encourage reform to diminish cases of wrongful imprisonment. The project's main beneficiaries have been Gregory Marino and The Fairbanks Four.

The American Civil Rights Institute is an American conservative non-profit organization that opposes affirmative action. It was founded by Ward Connerly and Thomas L. "Dusty" Rhodes in 1996 in Sacramento, California.

The Arab American Association of New York is an Arab American and Muslim civil rights organization located in New York. The Association has provided social services, immigration support, and public advocacy for New York's Arab American Community.

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, commonly shortened to By Any Means Necessary, is a militant, American far-left group that participates in protests and litigation to achieve its aims.

The Children's Defense Fund is an American 501 nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on child advocacy and research. It was founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman.

Community Change is a national organization that builds the power of low-income people, especially people of color, to fight for a society where everyone can thrive.

Economic Social Legal Pathways (ESLP) is a non-profit multidisciplinary, collaborative organization that provides a continuum of services, advocacy, and produces research, research-based policy prescriptions, and curricular innovation on the most challenging poverty, homelessness, civil rights, education, criminal issues facing California and the U.S.

Equal justice under law is a phrase engraved on the West Pediment, above the front entrance of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. It is also a societal ideal that has influenced the American legal system.

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

The Human Rights Campaign is an American LGBTQ advocacy group. It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States

Human Rights First is a nonpartisan, 501, international human rights organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 2004, Human Rights First started its "End Torture Now" campaign. The organization also runs the Fighting Discrimination program which focuses on hate crime.

Human Rights in China (HRIC) is a Chinese non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in March 1989 by overseas Chinese students and scientists. It actively engages in case and policy advocacy, media and press work, and capacity building.

The League of United Latin American Citizens is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. Their mission is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United States.

BRIDGE is a grassroots organization dedicated to catalyzing change and integration through promoting mutual respect and understanding with a gender and race equity lens that is trauma-informed and rooted in positive psychology and power analysis practices.

The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a non-profit, fat acceptance civil-rights organization in the United States dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people.

The National Conference of Black Lawyers is an American association, formed in 1968, to offer legal assistance to black civil rights activists, it is made up of judges, law students, lawyers, legal activists, legal workers, and scholars.

The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to and including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as well as those who worked for the African-American Voting Rights and Women's Suffrage movements.

The New York Civil Liberties Union is a civil rights organization in the United States. Founded in November 1951 as the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, it is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization with nearly 50,000 members across New York State.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces federal civil rights laws, conscience and religious freedom laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, and the Patient Safety Act and Rule, which together protect your fundamental rights of nondiscrimination, conscience, religious freedom, and health information privacy.

Shia Rights Watch is an organization that works to defend justice and rights for Shia Muslims around the world.

The Southern Regional Council is a reform-oriented organization created in 1944 to avoid racial violence and promote racial equality in the Southern United States. Voter registration and political-awareness campaigns are used toward this end. The SRC evolved in 1944 from the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.

The Advocacy Project is a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen community-based human rights advocacy groups. It was established in June 1998 to report to human rights advocates from the Rome conference that established the International Criminal Court

The Fund for Constitutional Government is an American nonprofit organization. Founded in 1974, its stated mission is to "awaken the American public's concern about the Constitution and to stimulate interest in monitoring how government conducts its business."

The USDA Coalition of Minority Employees is a civil rights organization formed by employees of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1994 specifically focused on ending discrimination within the Department and more generally on eradicating racism in agriculture in the United States.

WOMEN'S WAY is the Greater Philadelphia region's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of women, girls, and gender and racial equity.

Ambedkar International Center is a civil rights advocacy group that was formed in 2012 to fight against caste discrimination in the United States. The organization's mission is to strengthen unity among scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes living in the United States of America.

The American GI Forum National Veterans Outreach Program (NVOP) is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas and was founded in 1972 to address the needs of veterans returning from Vietnam.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is a New York-based national organization founded in 1974 that seeks to protect and promote the civil rights of Asian Americans.

Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people. Its primary concerns are incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement.

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, California. The stated aim of the center is to work for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America.

Flex Your Rights (Flex) is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit launched in 2002. It believes that citizens in a free and democratic society must actively shape the relationship between police and their community. That means people must be prepared to intelligently “flex” their constitutional rights when engaging with police.

Gideon's Promise, formerly the Southern Public Defender Training Center, is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 with a fellowship from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. It was founded in 1991 by Patrick Ball.

The Human Rights Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on closed societies. HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum.

Humanity in Action is an international nonprofit organization that educates and connects young people who seek to become leaders on issues related to human and minority rights.

The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute is a Berkeley, California-based non-profit think-tank, activism incubator, library and archive. Named for Alexander Meiklejohn, a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate, MCLI was founded in 1965.

The National Action Network is a not-for-profit, civil rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton in New York City, New York, in early 1991. The National Action Network is widely credited with drawing national attention to critical issues such as racial profiling, police brutality, and the US Naval bombing exercises on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is a museum dedicated to the achievements of the civil rights movement in the United States and the broader worldwide human rights movement. Located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, the museum opened to the public on June 23, 2014.

The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) is a membership organization committed to ending U.S.-sponsored torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Members include national denominations and faith groups, regional organizations and local congregations.

The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) is a youth-led Civil and political rights led by Margin Zheng & Ashawn Dabney-Small President & Vice-President of NYRA organization in the United States promoting youth rights, with approximately 10,000 members.

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. (NYLPI) is a non-profit civil rights law firm located in New York City, specializing in the areas of disability rights, access to health care and environmental justice.

Rainbow/PUSH is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization formed as a merger of two nonprofit organizations founded by Jesse Jackson; Operation PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition. The organizations pursue social justice, civil rights, and political activism.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement.

Stop AAPI Hate is a nonprofit organization that runs the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center, which tracks incidents of hate and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

The Center for Justice and Accountability is a US non-profit international human rights organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1998, CJA represents survivors of torture and other grave human rights abuses in cases against individual rights violators before U.S. and Spanish courts.

The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) was founded in 2009 by a group of Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles, California, as a grassroots response to address the specific needs of TGI Latin@ immigrants who live in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is the institution within the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin.

iVote is a national voting rights organization dedicated to going on offense in battleground states to expand access to voting. iVote invests in elections where voting rights access is at risk.