What was the purpose of the national council of colored people?

Answer 1

On Wednesday, July 6, 1853, more than one hundred delegates from around the country assembled in Rochester, New York, for a three-day convention to form the National Council of Colored People. This organization was an outgrowth of a larger movement, the Negro Convention Movement, which had begun almost twenty-three years earlier by the Rev. Richard Allen. It was at one of the convention meetings, that the plan for the National Council of Colored People was adopted. The meeting in Rochester drew many prominent black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, and James Pennington.

Answer 2

To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.