National Welfare Rights Organization

A photograph in which George Wiley (a founder and executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization) is on the right, and its first chair and later executive director welfare activist Johnnie Tillmon is on the left.
George Wiley (a founder and executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization) is on the right, and the National Welfare Rights Organization's first chair and later executive director, Johnnie Tillmon, is on the left.

The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) was an American activist organization that fought for the welfare rights of people, especially women and children. The organization had four goals: adequate income, dignity, justice, and democratic participation. The group was active from 1966 to 1975. At its peak in 1969, NWRO membership was estimated at 25,000 members (mostly African American women). Thousands more joined in NWRO protests.[1]

  1. ^ Tsuchiya, Kazuyo (23 January 2007). "National Welfare Rights Organization, 1966-1975". BlackPast.org.