The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) is founded by former Congress of Racial Equality activist George Wiley. NWRO will close in 1975 and be "reincarnated" as the The National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) in 1987.
The NWRU describes itself as: "an organization of, by, and for the poor in the United States and beyond." Its aim is to build "a social movement committed to ending poverty," and to promote "unity among low-income, public assistance recipients and the unemployed."