BCJLO also helps people to deal constructively rather than destructively with their anger, hurt, and frustration. Black Citizens for Justice Law & Order will assist individuals, families, workers, and complainants in their quest for racial justice in a variety of ways. We often start by investigating the complaints of unfair treatment, discrimination, or suppression, and then if evidence is discovered, the first step to rectification is often moral persuasion. We also continually provide activities that raise public awareness of the lack of human rights and workers’ rights under America’s laws, and to encourage the strengthening of legal and democratic rights for all people. How does this work for you?

Start by calling the race abuse hotline where an experienced volunteer will take your information. BCJLO will then put a plan together for the best plan of action to follow toward achieving racial justice, including possible referral to our friends at the EEOC.

No one can deny there is so much work yet to do. As said by Volunteer executive director, Daisy E. Joe, “we recognize we’ve come this far by faith, leaning on the LORD, trusting in His Holy Word, and He never failed us yet.” BCJLO’s crusade is to expose as much discrimination, bigotry, and racism as possible, and the bad news is that there is so much of this hatred in the world that we are only scratching the surface as we work each day toward racial justice.

We fight off the enemy of bigotry for one more moment, one more day, one individual at a time. Hardship is part of combat; part of the Black and minority experience is that we will endure adversity and have to make sacrifices. That is why we must stand strong and uphold each other.

In the latter part of 1969, several black men had the foresight to know that black people needed a racial justice organization that would truly listen to the grievances of Black people while being fair-minded with everyone without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, or socioeconomic status. Stanley O. Gaines, Arthur F. Joe, Sr., Al Lipscomb, Don Johnson, Ed Washington, and Dr. Emerson Emory, along with the help of several others, chartered Black Citizens for Justice Law & Order, or BCJLO in Dallas, Texas, as a boon for racial justice.

In 1982, senior board members saw that change was needed in BCJLO, and so Daisy Joe was offered the director’s role. In Daisy Joe’s own words, “I know that I fight each day a war that will never be won, but I keep on keeping on.”