Question

Your Assessment: Basically, I want you to know the types of issues these groups are involved in and whether they are generally supporters of liberals or conservatives, or are non-ideological. If you were to be given an issue, you should know which interest groups would be involved. For example, if the issue is an affordable medication for seniors, you should be able to identify AARP as a group (among others) who advocate for this issue. The groups with an asterisk are among the most active and therefore receive considerable more attention by media outlets for their activities.

Group: NAACP – National Association of Colored People*

Assess your group: What are its strengths and weaknesses?

How effective is it in achieving its agenda? Back up what you say with specific examples demonstrating their effectiveness or lack thereof.

Answer 1

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established for the purpose of arranging equal justice to the African American people. The organization wanted to start a movement for the equality and rights of the African American people. The group worked harmoniously.

My group consists a number of social workers and we work with disable children and adults.

The strength of the group:

• We demand for the justice of the handicapped people. We are united.
• We get the support of the ordinary people.
• We want to work selflessly in our spare time and we are dedicated to our service.
• We take all the steps by discussion.
• The activities are distributed among the group members and all help each other.

Some problems of the group:

• We suffer from the lack of fund.
• We face many difficulties in pursuing the authorities as there needs some political influence.
• As the members give volunteer service, all the time members are not available.

But we have achieved many things in spite of troubles. We arrange vocational education for the children with special needs. We also pursue to the government for help and sometimes we also get loan for the adult disable person.