Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Map of Civil Rights Work

In remembrance of Dr. King, we took a look at where various civil rights organizations are located that serve our country. These organizations provide services ranging from legal representation in housing discrimination cases to the implementation of fair lending laws. We get this information from the Urban Institute’s Common Core of Data file of nonprofit locations, and it’s available through a PolicyMap subscription. We’re pleased that we’ll be updating these data in the next few weeks to include the very latest information pertaining to these organizations and other nonprofits nationwide.

If you’re interested in replicating any of the maps, below, you simply need to sign in to PolicyMap with your subscriber login, load on the “National Center for Charitable Statistics Nonprofit Locations” from the Nonprofit Locations menu option in the Add Sites menu, and filter it by the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities Group: Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy.

Below is a map of the civil rights-related organizations in the San Diego, CA area, as well some of the information available for each nonprofit:

And here is a map of downtown Chicago’s Civil Rights organizations:

And here is a map of downtown Chicago’s Civil Rights organizations:

For more information about these data, please see our Data Directory entry here.