WHEREAS, LULAC and the NAACP are partners, joined together as members of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to support the initiatives of each other and other like minded organizations; and

WHEREAS, LULAC's and the NAACP's AIMS and OBJECTIVES are consistent and support the desire for social justice for all persons despite their race, creed, color, national origin or sex;

WHEREAS, with the new census and required redistricting that will take place in the coming year in Texas being of paramount importance to each organization; and

WHEREAS, each organization abhors discrimination against constituents of the other organization;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOVED, that the Texas NAACP and Texas LULAC acknowledge, support and urge the following:

1. That our units consult and cooperate with each other openly I reference to matters of common interest including but not limited to redistricting, racial profiling, police misconduct, fairness in the criminal justice system; and
2. That we recognize and support the concept that in some communities it is appropriate for Voting Rights Act purposes to join individuals together as one community of interest who are of Hispanic Origin with those of African-American origin;
3. That we continue to support each other in our initiatives as required by our partnership to the extent practicable;
4. We call upon public officials who are either African-American or Hispanic to zealously represent both groups as they do all of their constituents; and
5. We recognize the continued need to maximize representation of each of our groups on governing bodies, and call upon all citizens o recognize that w have a fundamental rights to choose who represents us despite their race, creed, color or national origin.

This Agreement is subject to ratification by the appropriate governing bodies of each organization.

Gary Bledsoe Roman Palomares Carmelita Pope
Texas NAACP President LULAC State Director Regional Director SRC
Department of Justice

Submitted by
Mary L Ramos
District and Director

Approved this 9th day of June, 2001.

Rick Dovalina
LULAC National President