Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.
At the time of its creation in 1974, the association was called the Association des Amis de la Maison de la Négritude et des Droits de l’Homme. The association, then chaired by Alain Jacquot-Boileau, had created the museography for the Maison de la Négritude. It changed its name in 2000 and became the Association les Amis du Vœu de Champagney et de sa Maison de la Négritude et des Droits de l’Homme (AVCMNDH).
The mission of the AVCMNDH is to promote the Vœu de Champagney (relating to article 29 of the Cahier de doléances when the inhabitants of Champagney called for the abolition of slavery in 1789) through various events. The association publishes a newsletter called 'Dignité' twice a year.
In its statement in the Journal Officiel in 2000, the objective of the AVCMNDH was 'to continue our unabated fight for human rights and fundamental freedoms'.
In 2004, the association added to its objectives:
- The conservation, development, study and dissemination of the wish expressed by the inhabitants of Champagney on 19th March 1789, expressed in article 29 in favour of the black slaves in their Cahier de doléances (list of grievances): to maintain, spread and promote the knowledge of the Black world and promote fraternal exchanges between all human beings
- To denounce by all means all forms of slavery. All activities will be in line with the thinking of President Léopold Sédar Senghor, who asserted in 1980 the need to 'Continue, without failing, our struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms'.