United States Business and Industry Council

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The United States Business and Industry Council (USBIC) is an NGO lobbying on behalf of family-owned and closely held US manufacturing companies. It was founded in 1933 as the Southern States Industrial Council, playing a major role in segregationist campaigns, before moving its headquarters to Washington D.C. in the 1980s. [1]

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Mission

The mission of the USBIC is "to expand our domestic economy, with particular emphasis on our manufacturing, processing, and fabricating industries, and through the resulting growth to extend a high standard of living to all Americans."[ citation needed ]

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Sarah H. (November 2011). "'The Role of Elite Leadership in the Southern Defense of Segregation, 1954-1964". The Journal of Southern History. 77 (4): 827–864.


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