What Stand do Interest Groups Take on Affirmative Action?

There are numerous interest groups and organizations in America. However, I found a few, in my opinion, that could easily be called the main groups on affirmative action. All of these groups work to promote affirmative action in the United States. Each one of them have called on the Congress to reject anti-affirmative action bills. They are listed as the following: 

• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

"Affirmative action programs – including targeted outreach and recruitment efforts, the use of non-traditional criteria for hiring and admissions, after-school and mentorship programs, and training and apprenticeship opportunities – are tailored to fit specific instances where race and gender must be taken into account in order to provide fair and equal access to minorities and women. These programs recognize and strive to correct the barriers that continue to block the paths of many individual Americans, including women, Native Americans, Arab Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans. Affirmative action helps ensure equal access to opportunities and brings our nation closer to the ideal of giving everyone a fair chance. We support affirmative action and other race- and gender-conscious policies as vital tools in the struggle to provide all Americans with equal opportunity, to promote diversity in academic and professional settings, and to give each and every one of us a fair chance to compete." ( "Striving for Equal Opportunity: Why the ACLU Supports Affirmative Action," March 2008) 

• CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)
• NOW (National Organization for Women)

"Despite the enormous gains made by the civil rights and women's rights movements, women and people of color still face unfair obstacles in business and education. An astonishing 70% of schools are not in compliance with Title IX, the federal equal education opportunity law...
Affirmative Action programs merely acknowledge that hundreds of years of discrimination cannot be erased in a few decades and still hold women and people of color back. Affirmative Action is the bridge between changing the laws and changing the culture.
The radical right wing would have us believe that women and people of color earn less because we don't work as hard or we're not as smart. That simply isn't the case. Laws have changed, but discrimination persists. Affirmative Action only opens doors, women and people of color have to walk through those doors by themselves." ("Talking About Affirmative Action," November 2009)

• LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens)
• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

These next interest groups are only based on working for civil rights and affirmative action.

• LCCR (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
• AAAA (American Association on Affirmative Action)
• BAMN (Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary)