Chief reasons for the elimination of historical landmarks include carelessness, a lack of funding availability, or significant alteration of the resource; in-turn damaging its historical integrity, and no documented history or evidence of historical significance.

Numerous historic homes of African-Americans, as well as others who held prominent roles in the civil rights movement are still standing, though they are in dire need of rehabilitation or documented evidence of the home's worthiness to be saved from demolition and be preserved. Many of these homes or businesses have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and deemed local historical landmarks; though these distinctions alone do not guarantee that an historical structure will be saved from demolition.

Saving such historical landmarks is a key component of the NAPAAHC. Securing funding, as well as hosting annual fundraisers for this purpose is the core gist of the organization. The NAPAAHC pursues what at first glance may be conceived as impossible, and works assiduously to save and restore historical buildings important to the culture of African-Americans; rich in historic lore, indelible to the future of America, and important for what could become a renewed residence, or an economic hub for a variety of uses.