Dear President Obama

SOUTHERN STRATEGIES COMMITTEE

c/o Highlander Center, 1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN, (865) 933-3443

April 10, 2009

Dear President Obama,
We write to you as community organizers from the US South to add our voices to the many
congratulating you on your historic election. We find ourselves so much more hopeful now
that you are at the nation’s helm. We are especially moved by how you, in the tradition of Dr.
M.L. King, Jr., have challenged generations young and old to transform the conditions in which
we find ourselves by using new frameworks and out‐of‐the‐box approaches. Indeed, we are
writing you at this particular moment as a collective act of commemoration of Dr. King’s legacy.
With this letter, we are joining our diverse voices in the common purpose of calling your
attention to the need for federal action to remedy how the South, historically and today,
remains the nation’s underbelly. As a former community organizer, we believe you recognize
that the status of the “bottom” is the key indicator of the health and well‐being of a nation, and
we appeal to you to keep fresh this perspective as you frame and implement policies to bring
our nation to a realization of full democracy, peace, economic recovery and opportunity for all.
In the attached case statement As the South Goes, So Goes the Nation, we have highlighted the
compounding effects of the various structural arrangements—institutions, policies, and
practices—that have kept our region underdeveloped and have conspired to nullify the impact
of progressive national policies in the region. Some reforms we suggest are: uniform voting
rights; eliminating right‐to‐work laws; fair and just immigration policies; a civil rights doctrine
of effect, rather than intent; and alternative forms of energy and economic renewal that lift rural
and urban communities out of poverty. Trusting you recall how past Southern struggles have
had a transformative influence on the nation, we want you to consider the South’s strategic role
in national recovery. Southern rootedness in community, values anchored in faith and family,
and models of making a way out of no way are some of the strengths we can contribute to national
economic renewal.
Over the past few years, we have forged relationships, shared regional knowledge, and begun
building a platform that addresses the multiple fronts of poverty. We are planning a series of
Southern people’s assemblies to marshal intergenerational voices at the community level in
developing ideas, priorities and strategies. But we cannot transform our region alone.
We look to you to use the powers and resources of your office to work with us to reform these
institutional arrangements, and together, refuel the social change organizing that is necessary to
transform the region. Specifically, we are asking you to work with us to create a Southern
Agenda within your administration, and to establish an institutional mechanism to oversee its
implementation. Believing that the combined wisdom and skills of government and grassroots
communities can have the greatest impact, we urge you to involve grassroots voices among a
broad cross section of Southerners in the framing of the agenda, goals and timetables, and to
develop clear lines of communication between our communities and your administration.
Thanking you in advance for your prompt attention, we are sincerely yours,
Pam McMichael, Highlander Research and Leah Wise, Southeast Regional Economic Justice
Education Center, 865-933-3443 Network, 919-403-4310, leah.wise@rejn.org
pam@highlandercenter.org
Emery Wright, Project South, emery@projectsouth.org
Tomas Aguilar, Colectivo Flatlander
tomas@colectivoflatlander.org Art Menius, Appalshop, amenius@appalshop.org

As The South Goes, So Goes The Nation

THE CASE FOR A FEDERAL SOUTHERN AGENDA
Prepared by the Southern Strategies Committee, www.southernstrategies.ning.com
BASIS FOR SIGNIFICANT CHANGE
There is the saying, demonstrated by history, “As the South goes, so goes the nation.” This is
particularly true in light of the South’s changing demographics. Two‐thirds of the nation’s
fastest‐growing counties are in the South, which reflects 40% growth since 1980, compared to
30% nationally. Projections are that the region may gain as many as nine Congressional seats
after the 2010 census. This portends the South will have greater political influence in electing
presidents and congressional representatives.

Our 12‐state region also has nearly 60% of the nation’s African Americans and the fastest
growing Latino immigrant population in the last decade. This suggests we will have an
increasing number of majority “minority” districts, making the region more politically
competitive and critical to any strategy for national political power. President Obama’s election
in North Carolina, where he won 56% of white voters under 30—the highest in the nation,
demonstrates there is a new generation of white voters in the South. If we can build on the 20%
rise nationally in the turnout of minority voters in 2008, we have the basis for significant change
in the region.

A REGION OF CONCENTRATED DISPARITIES
The South still remains the nation’s poorest region, exhibiting gross disparities of persistent
poverty, racial inequity, environmental degradation, educational under‐achievement, and ill
health, relative to the rest of the nation. Three of the five poorest areas of the country are in the
South—Central Appalachia, the Lower Mississippi Delta and the Southern Black Belt (Poverty in
Rural America, Housing Assistance Council, June 2006). Of the 100 poorest counties in the nation,
74 are located in the South. Poverty rates, averaging 14% in 2006, have risen in nearly every
Southern state since 2000. They are significantly higher for children, female‐headed households,
immigrant families and communities of color, hovering from 40‐64% in the poorest counties.
Eight of the 15 bottom states in education expenditure per pupil are in the South, and the South
is the only region in the nation where low‐income children constitute a majority in public
schools. (A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South’s Public Schools, Southern Education
Foundation, 2007).

Moreover, in contrast to national trends, HIV and teen pregnancy rates are on the rise in the
region, as are low performing schools, high school dropouts, youth incarceration rates,
poisoned environments, and chronic diseases, all of which disproportionately impact people of
color. Such disparity exposes the persistence of institutional racism.
SOUTHERN STATE ECONOMIC STRATEGY
Southern “right‐to‐work” laws have been the linchpin of Southern state economic strategy. This
race to the bottom strategy has ensured a region of working poor by making unionization and
collective bargaining difficult and, in the case of North Carolina public workers, illegal. State
policies have favored low wages, minimal regulation, low and regressive taxes, suppression of
Southern Strategies Contacts: Highlander Center (TN) 865-933-3443; Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (NC) 2
919-403-4310; Colectivo Flatlander (TX) 512-644-8035; Project South (GA) 404-622-0602; Appalshop (KY) 606-633-0108

workers’ rights, absentee ownership of land, capital, factories and natural resources, and racial
and gender discrimination in workplaces, neighborhoods and services. Because a higher
percentage of black workers are employed in the public sector, right‐to‐ work has more severely
restricted economic progress in the black community. Women also are impacted
disproportionately by the exploitative conditions in the South, which has the highest
regional percentage of women in the workforce. Because of their added exposure to sexual
harassment and violence at work, women have borne the brunt of such workplace exploitation,
particularly in plants, such as poultry and catfish, where employers have hired a predominantly
female workforce in anticipation of its greater docility. Southern state development strategies
aggressively market these characteristics to lure branch plants and investment from the North
and West and foreign industry. The downside has been a flurry of competition among states,
which has drained public coffers through opaque and unaccountable use of public incentives
and turned the region into a revolving door for transient industry.

Despite two “Reconstruction” eras (1870’s and 1950‐60’s), national policy never thoroughly
dismantled the bastion of states rights that protected these arrangements. Just how the doctrine
of states rights is embedded in the body politic is exemplified by the fact that Mississippi was
the last state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution that legally abolished slavery.
That ratification took place in 1995 as a temporary act, which was renewed in 2007 for 100 years.
Three Southern states were also the last to ratify the 19th amendment giving women suffrage,
which they did in 1984, 1971 and 1970.

FEDERAL NEGLECT
Federal policy towards Native Americans, black farmers, and Katrina survivors are three
poignant examples of how institutional racism has impacted our region from the national level
as well. Because most of the Southern Indian Bands are not recognized tribes with US
Government treaties, the denial of federal subsidies has only deepened their poverty. As amply
documented in the Pigford suit and settlement, U.S. Department of Agriculture policy
discriminated against African American farmers in crop allotments, allocation of credit and
resources, and access to markets. This discrimination has resulted in such wholesale elimination
of black farmers and black‐owned farmland that even aggressive remedial action would likely
take generations to recover the loss. In addition, the infrastructure for implementing USDA
policy and programs is controlled by local politics. This is one example of how denying political
access has enabled Southern white elites to suppress black opportunity and maintain black
poverty. The implementation of other national programs, such as welfare, disability benefits,
and unemployment, as well as environmental protection, has had similar fates.

The example of Katrina survivors is better known, since the scenes of gross neglect, abuse, and
disdain by FEMA and other authorities appeared on network news. For black Southerners, the
story of FEMA’s relief programs giving consistent preferential treatment to affluent whites over
blacks and poor people was familiar, based on previous disasters. What was new about
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, however, was that the dismantling of government had proceeded
to such an extent that FEMA lacked the capability to respond adequately. Unaccountable
government and unbridled corporate activity continue to allow environmental degradation of

the coastal wetlands and delayed building of adequate levies. We support the efforts of
representatives of diverse Gulf Coast communities and their national supporters who have
asked you to sign an executive order authorizing the Gulf Coast Civic Works Program.

CASUALTIES: ENVIRONMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE
For generations, people in Southern and Central Appalachia have seen corporations, controlled
by people outside the region, extract the vast wealth of our resources, while paying minimal
taxes and exploiting workers with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Central
Appalachia, one of the South’s three areas of consistent poverty, provides a stark illustration of
how the South came to be a resource‐rich region with the poorest people. Now mountaintop
removal, with its degrading effects on the environment and quality of life, is accelerating the
process. Government neglect has compounded Appalachia’s environmental disasters. The 1972
Buffalo Creek flood that killed 125 people and destroyed sixteen coal mining communities in
West Virginia and the more recent coal ash spill at the TVA plant in east Tennessee are
examples of the results of failure to adequately monitor dams. The current regional spike in
Black lung, a deadly disease that can be largely prevented by effective dust control, is another
example of what happens when government fails to act.

Federal environmental regulation has not protected military families either. According to a law
suit on behalf of 850 Marine families from Camp Lejeune (NC), from 1957‐87 they were exposed
to water polluted with carcinogenic toxins in amounts 40 times current allowable standards.

Poignant examples of how exploitative conditions in the South disparately impact women are
seen in policies of the medical and welfare establishments. Driven by theories of eugenics, they
subjected black, Native American, and poor white women to forced sterilizations. Fannie Lou
Hamer was one such victim of the “Mississippi Appendectomy,” in which her uterus was
removed instead of a benign tumor. Poverty, particularly the lack of decent and affordable
health care, fundamentalist culture, and violent hate groups, which have terrorized women’s
clinics and murdered doctors, have worked together to continue to restrict Southern women’s
access to full reproductive freedom.

Forced by Lawrence v. Texas, (2003) Southern states were the last to decriminalize
homosexuality. This legacy toughened the hostile fundamentalist culture that made lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender Southerners vulnerable to hate crimes, discriminatory laws and
practices, and social ostracism. Federal civil rights protections, however, have not offered
redress or solutions since they exclude LGBT people, including laws against hate crimes.

FEEBLE INFRASTRUCTURE
There is insufficient infrastructure in the South to support the implementation of federal policy
that benefits ordinary people, and that is why much progressive legislation has bypassed the
region. The US Department of Labor has minimal presence here and little relationship with
unorganized workers. Mississippi has no Department of Labor at all, and five Southern states
have no minimum wage laws. The lack of coordination between federal agencies, particularly

the Environmental Protection Agency and DOL, makes it difficult for communities to organize
successfully around polluting industries–such as industrial hog farms–that are injurious to
workers’ and residents’ health.

Private philanthropy has not altered the picture either. That which emanates from foundations
and donors from within the region primarily supports services, largely steering clear of policy
advances and organizing investments that might “upset the apple cart”. What comes to us from
national foundations amounts to such a meager portion relative to what goes to the rest of the
country that it actually contributes to the South’s deepening disparity.
NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION:
SOUTHERN ECONOMIC STRATEGY GONE NATIONAL AND BEYOND
In many respects globalization can best be understood as the South’s economic strategy
ascending to the national level, aided by new technologies. Globalization was consolidated by
Reaganomics (domestic policy) and systematized as market‐driven “free” trade policy
(international). It mirrored Southern state policy in intent and in design. Intent: remove
encumbrances to the free reign of corporations and private capital by dismantling government
and eliminating the power of workers. Design: enact trade and investment liberalization,
privatization, deregulation, tax cuts, elimination of social programs, union busting, civil liberty
violations, and deployment of troops.

Under globalization, the restructuring of work as contingent labor, combined with the
outsourcing and off‐shoring of jobs, were corporate strategies to reduce labor costs. They
accelerated massive job hemorrhaging alongside the mergers and leveraged buyouts that hit the
region in the 1980’s. The new fractured jobs bypassed much labor law and, by eliminating
benefits, mushroomed the ranks of the uninsured, which now hover above 19% in the region.
All sectors, from small farmers to medical doctors, were touched. “Zero tolerance” and ability
tracking policies, that were mainly applied in under funded public schools with majority
students of color, contribute to these new arrangements by relegating most students of color to
contingent service jobs. The demise of traditional industries in the South was anticipated in the
NAFTA debates, and indeed, rural communities have been severely hit. (Textiles lost 40% of
plants in NC and 65% of jobs). But new growth industries—such as the “information highway,”
biotech, auto, and industrial hog farming—have defied promises of picking up the slack and
exhibit unstable employment.

The effects of these policies on ordinary workers are higher production quotas, longer shifts,
more injuries, less pay, long periods of joblessness and/or access to unstable temp or part‐time
work. Unemployment and TRA benefits haven’t been enough, particularly for older workers
with limited formal education. Only sixty percent of laid‐off workers found work after 2 years,
which paid less than 90% of their pre‐layoff wages. Credit discrimination and insufficient
training marginalized particularly skilled workers of color, who tried to create their own
businesses. The households of working families were stressed by having to cope with fewer
resources, and also with reduced and erratic parenting time because of the burden of working
several jobs. It was in this context that predatory lending surged.

Globalization policies have destabilized local economies on every continent as well, forcing 200
million people to migrate in search of safety and jobs. While only 2% have come to the US, the
portion coming to the South has given our region the fastest growing population and nearly
overnight transformed the demographics in our communities. Most newcomers in the South are
Mexicans and reside in rural communities, but configurations vary from community to
community. For example, in Gwinnett County, GA, a county that was 90% white a decade ago,
100 languages is now spoken in county schools. The negative side of these trends is that they
have ignited competition in grassroots communities over scarce resources because the region
has little infrastructure, few human resources, and little multi‐cultural experience with which to
accommodate immigrants, starting with language barriers.

Corporate greed and politicians have coalesced to create a combination of unjust immigration
policies and weak labor laws. They support employers’ divide‐and‐conquer tactics and have
allowed the resurgence of workers’ super exploitation, especially targeting the undocumented,
and created a new and increasing underclass of immigrant workers. These workers, having
been forced to migrate from their countries of origin due to the devastating impact of the global
economy, accept low wages and dangerous working conditions in order to feed their families.
Non‐payment of wages is a growing trend across the region, and slavery has again resurfaced,
notably in Florida and New Orleans. The case of Francisca Herrera illuminates the rollback on
the hard‐fought gains won by worker’s rights movements. Her son was born without limbs,
because she was exposed to pesticides while she was pregnant and working in North Carolina
tomato fields (2004). Draconian policies deny undocumented immigrants access to higher
education, health care and drivers’ licenses. These measures are not only unjust and unfair,
especially to young people who have only known this country; they have backfired as public
policy. More horrific are the detentions and deportations associated with the ICE raids, 287g,
and similar policies. They intensify racial profiling and bring terror and abuse to our
communities, reminiscent of Jim Crow and Dred Scott.

The combined effect of the disproportionate impact of these policies on black workers amounts
to a wholesale onslaught that booted many African Americans out of the formal economy. Yet,
their exclusion has received little public attention, because most analyses and work focus on the
individual factors, rather than the sum. Tally these:
$ Privatization cut full‐time jobs with benefits, and left the higher percentage of black
workers employed in the public sector vulnerable to greater discrimination and lower pay.
$ Deregulation weakened protection from OSHA, EEOC, EPA, FEMA, HUD, SEC, and the
Office of Civil Rights. Coupled with employer friendly NLRB and federal court decisions in
civil rights cases, it restored black families’ vulnerability to job, housing and credit
discrimination, injuries, illness, disabilities, and disasters.
$ The South leads the pack in the well‐documented, intentional targeting of African
Americans, regardless of income, by predatory lenders. Four of five metropolitan statistical
areas with the largest lending disparities are located in North Carolina and Virginia.

$ Plant closings and lay‐offs have destroyed jobs that, while offering lower pay, less
seniority, and harsher conditions relative to whites and Northern counterparts, provided
the most stable income in the black community and supported families and small
businesses.
$ Unjust immigration policies, weak labor laws, and racism have combined in ways that have
given employers new opportunities to practice flagrant discrimination and to make all
workers more vulnerable. African Americans have experienced a decline in employment in
every sector, even fast foods, and continued exclusion from jobs that have historically been
denied them.
$ Welfare cuts and the reduction of safety net programs, particularly the welfare to work
programs, put many rural, low income women in near‐indentured status and without
promised childcare and transportation benefits, and correlates to the growth of strip clubs,
sex workers, illicit drug trade, and skyrocketing HIV rates in rural communities.
$ Mobilization of the National Guard for Iraq and Afghanistan has emptied college
classrooms of huge numbers of black students, particularly from HBCUs, and graduates
out of work, exposing the enormous disparity in the African American community’s
reliance on military funding for higher education.

The wars in the Middle East also have had a disproportionate impact on Southern communities
beyond race. Forty‐two percent of enlisted soldiers come from Southern states and largely from
rural communities, which is why our nation’s wars have been a devastating force in the region.
Southerners without privilege have used the military as their primary pathway to
opportunity—a job and/or a way to pay college tuition. But the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
have flipped the script. War casualties have thrust many military families into poverty and
grief, especially when soldiers return home to inadequate medical and mental health services.

In short, Southern engineered globalization, though a process of economic expansion, has
generated greater racial disparity, wealth gap, and poverty of women and children in the
region, even though these policies were not formulated with discriminatory intent. It has also
turned the South into a sinkhole for the nation: sucking out jobs, depressing wages, defeating
worker organization, and most recently, precipitating the financial crisis that has also foreclosed
homes, stopped credit, and sparked a near global depression. But, in these dire circumstances
lie opportunities, too, as the new demographics and political realignments in the region we
previously mentioned, suggest.
REMEDY—A SOUTHERN PLAN OF ACTION FOR CHANGE
What we need most is a coordinated approach to attack the causes of poverty in the region,
particularly in rural communities, an approach that helps marshal the vision, talents and
energies of grassroots communities by investing in community organizing and networking. The
impact of the economic stimulus package on our region is limited without addressing these
structural arrangements that create and maintain the issues we face. We want to help forge a
new economy that sustains all families, communities, and the planet. Establishing a Southern
Agenda and mechanism within the Obama Administration to work with us to develop and

mount on‐the‐ground strategies and partnerships will help make such potential real, by being
able to focus on such structural areas as:
a) Eliminating racial disparities and the human rights abuses of current immigration policies
b) Establishing uniform voting rights that extend full access to all, and aligning our voting rules
with international voting standards, to which our nation already has subscribed
c) Eliminating right to work laws
d) Changing the intent doctrine in civil rights to one of effect
e) Developing alternative forms of energy in collaboration with mining communities to assure
that the switch away from coal does not mean these communities are sacrificed
f) Bringing living wage green collar jobs that can lift people out of poverty to rural and urban
communities.
Thus, we are asking for a plan, mechanism, and opportunity to partner with President Obama,
to galvanize intergenerational voices, ideas and priorities from across the region. We think a
process that targets young people and grassroots women would be the most strategic—the
former because they have energy, inspiration, and skills; the latter because they are the anchors
of our families and communities, make up the majority of community organizing and service
troops, and have shown themselves to be the most creative in making a way out of no way.

At the time of his assassination, Dr. King had begun calling attention to the economic
underpinnings of structural racism, poverty, political power, war, and other social issues and
formulating a massive poor people’s campaign. We believe that it was his call for a
comprehensive attack on the lingering legacy of slavery and violence that made him too
threatening to live. His vision of beloved community remains before us and is renewed by the
hope and excitement President Obama’s leadership of the nation gives us. We implore
President Obama to help us sweep away the blockages under his command as we keep our eyes
on the prize and actively hold on. We have rolled up our sleeves.

A Special Thanks to:
Leah Wise, Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (NC) for leading the writing team.
Pam McMichael, Highlander Center (TN) for coordinating the process, writing and editing.

And to the following who also contributed to content, research, writing, and/or editing:
Beth Bingman Appalshop (KY); Theresa El‐Amin, Southern Anti‐Racism Network (NC)
Chavvah Lister, Center for Rural Strategies (KY/TN) Tionya Shivers, Southern Coalition for Justice (NC)
Tomas Aguilar, Colectivo Flatlander (TX) Liz Veazey, Southern Energy Network (TN)
Monica Hernandez, Highlander Center (TN) Janine Lee, Southern Partners Fund (GA)
Federico Barillas, Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama Holly Garret, Student Environmental Action Coalition, (VA)
Allison Glass, Mid South Peace and Justice Center (TN) Nell Levin, Tennessee Alliance for Progress
Jaribu Hill, Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Mab Segrest, (CT)
Emery Wright & Stephanie Guilloud, Project South (GA) Suzanne Pharr, (TN)
James Carpenter, South Carolina Progressive Network Ted Rosengarten (SC)
Connie Leeper, SE Regional Economic Justice Network (NC)


Organizational Signatures Defenders for Freedom, Justice Kentucky Jobs With Justice

& Equality Louisville, KY
2nd Chance Organization
Richmond, VA
Lexington, MS Latin American and Caribbean

El Pueblo, Inc Community Center
AFWU, Local 591
Raleigh, NC Atlanta, GA
Rocky Mount, NC

Emerging ChangeMakers M.U.G.A.B.E.E.
Alabama Environmental
Network Raymond, MS
Council
Mobile, AL
Birmingham, AL Miami Workers Center

Esperanza Peace and Justice Miami, FL
Alternate ROOTS
Center
Atlanta, GA Mid South Peace and Justice
San Antonio, TX

Center
Ananse Consulting
Farmworker Association of Memphis, TN
Durham, NC
Florida

Mississippi Immigrants Rights
Aniz Inc Apopka, FL
Alliance (MIRA)
Atlanta, GA

Georgia Citizensʹ Coalition on Jackson, MS

Appalachian Action Coalition Hunger
Mississippi Workers Center for
Cincinnati, OH Atlanta, GA
Human Rights
Appalachian Community Fund Georgia Equality Greenville, MS
Knoxville, TN Atlanta, GA Mississippi Youth Justice

Project
Appalshop Harriet Tubman Freedom
Jackson, MS
Whitesburg, KY House Project

Columbia, SC MLK Community Center of
Black Workers for Justice
Parks and Rec of Blount
Greensboro, NC High Rocks for Girls
County
Hillsboro, WV
CAAMU Alcoa, TN
Rocky Mount, NC Highlander Research and
NARAL Pro‐Choice North
Education Center
Carl Braden Memorial Center Carolina
New Market, TN
Louisville, KY Raleigh, NC

Hispanic Latino Coalition
Center for Artistic Revolution NC Fair Share
Louisville, KY
North Little Rock, AR Raleigh, NC

Independent Progressive
Coalicion de Organizaciones Neighbors for Better
Politics Network
Latino‐Americanas (COLA) Neighborhoods
Gastonia, NC
Asheville, NC Winston‐Salem, NC

Junebug Productions
Colectivo Flatlander New Life Women’s Project
New Orleans, LA
Houston, TX Williamston, NC

Just Cause Oakland
Concerned Citizens For A North Carolina Peoplesʹ
Oakland, CA
Better Tunica County Coalition for Giving
Tunica, MS Kentucky Alliance Against Pittsboro, NC

Racist and Political Repression
Concerned Memphians United People Organized in Defense of
Louisville, KY
Memphis, TN Earth and her Resources

Austin, TX


Power U Center Tennessee Alliance for Progress Ernest Boyd

Miami, FL Nashville, TN Weaverville, NC

Project South: Institute for the Tennessee Immigrant & Ebonie Brake

Elimination of Refugee Rights Coalition Rocky Mount, NC

Poverty&Genocide Nashville, TN
Caitlin Breedlove
Atlanta, GA
The Center for Rural Strategies East Point, GA

RALEIGH F.I.S.T. Whitesburg, KY
Miriam Brodersen
Chapel Hill, NC
The Hispanic Liaison of Healthy Families Durham*
Rocky Mount City Workers, Chatham County Durham, NC

UE 150 Siler City, NC
Cynthia Brown
Rocky Mount, NC
The Ordinary Peopleʹs Society Durham, NC

Sister SONG (T.O.P.S.)
Ivy Burch
Atlanta, GA Dothan, AL
Durham, NC

Society of Folk Arts & Culture The People United
Omisade Burney‐Scott
Eutaw, AL Harrisonburg, VA
Durham, NC

South Piedmont Economic The Peopleʹs Institute for
Erin Byrd
Action for Recovery (SPEAR) Survival & Beyond Southeast
Raleigh, NC
Kannapolis, NC Region

Atlanta, GA Ben Carroll
Southeast Regional Economic
Chapel Hill, NC
Justice Network The Sojourner Group
Durham, NC Durham, NC Mandy Carter

Durham, NC
Southern Anti‐Racism Ubuntu National and
Network International Trade and Don Cavellini

Durham, NC Education (UNITE) Pitt County Coalition Against

Rayville, LA Racism*
Southern Coalition for Social
Greenville, NC
Justice UE 150
Durham, NC Raleigh, NC Daniella Ann Cook

Durham, NC
Southern Energy Network Virginia Organizing Project
Knoxville, TN Charlottesville, VA Dorothy Cook

Rocky Mount, NC
Southern Partners Fund Workers Interfaith Network
Atlanta, GA Memphis, TN Angela Crewspy

Lewisburg, NC
Southerners on New Ground Individual Signatures
Atlanta, GA Max Davis
Frank T. Adams Durham City Workers Union,
Southside Neighborhood Asheville, NC UE 150*
Association of Durham, Inc.
Deven D. Anderson Durham, NC
Durham, NC
Common Cause of NC* Walter Davis
Southwest Workers Union Raleigh, NC National Organizers Alliance*
San Antonio, TX Ajamu Baraka
Seymour, TN
SpiritHouse, Inc. US Human Rights Network*
Julia Dawson
Durham, NC Atlanta, GA

Miami, FL
stone circles Charlie Biggs
Dr. Vivian DeShields
Mebane, NC Knoxville, TN

Montgomery, AL


Barbara Dillon Kevin Alexander Gray Angaza Mayo‐Laughinghouse

Activist With A Purpose* Columbia, SC Greensboro, NC

Grenada, MS
Katie Haworth Kay McClorey
Jenny Dorgan Durham, NC Kannapolis, NC

Birmingham, AL
Paulina Hernandez Ashley McKay
Pearl Dozier Atlanta, GA Tunica, MS

Battleboro, NC
Jaribu Hill ATTY. Al McSurely
Ilana Dubester Greenville, MS NC NAACP*

Governorʹs Council on Chapel Hill, NC
Timothy Hodges
Hispanic/Latino Affairs*
Clayton, NC Andrea Mensch
Pittsboro, NC
Raleigh, NC

Debra T. Horton
Ana Edwards
NC Justice Center* Chantelle Miles
Sacred Ground Historical
Raleigh, NC Durham, NC
Reclamation Project*
Richmond, VA Claudia Horwitz Luckner Millien

Mebane, NC Apopka, FL
Theresa El‐Amin
Durham, NC Brenda Hyde Evan Milligan

Jackson, MS Montgomery, AL
Raymond Lee Eurquhart
Durham, NC Denise Jennings Regina M. Moorer

Atlanta, GA Hayneville, AL
Gaye Evans
Knoxville, TN Rev. Lee Wyatt King Tirso Moreno

Kinghtdale, NC Apopka, FL
Rev. David M. Fay
Raleigh, NC Sean Kosofsky Fank V. Morgan

Raleigh, NC Greenville, NC
Sissy Ferguson
Alcoa, TN Janine Lee Tara Morris

Atlanta, GA Rocky Mount, NC
Stephen Fisher
Emory, VA Connie Leeper Morgan Moss, Jr

Kannapolis, NC Rayville, LA
George Friday
Gastonia, NC Nell Levin Saladin Muhammad

Nashville, TN Rocky Mount, NC
Doug Gamble
Maryville, TN Patrick Lincoln Muna Mujahid

Harrisonburg, VA Durham, NC
H. Vanessa Mason Gerald
UE 160* George Lovelan Wilma S. Nedrick

Chesterfield, VA Ferrum College* Petersburg, VA

Rocky Mount, VA
Malcom Goff Jessica Norwood
NC Association of Educators* Marie Lynch Mobile, AL

Durham, NC Rocky Mount, NC

John OʹNeal
Jeff Graham Michael Maloney New Orleans, LA

Atlanta, GA Cincinnati, OH

Jed Oppenheim
Heather Gray Dani Martinez‐Moore Jackson, MS

Atlanta, GA Raleigh, NC


Shameka Parrish‐Wright Mikki Sager Larry Wellman

Louisville, KY Chapel Hill, NC Wilson, NC

Dr. Gwendolyn Patton Graciela Sanchez Tashika Wellman

Montgomery, AL San Antonio, TX Durham, NC

ATTY. M. Travis Payne Zulayka Santiago Ruth Willoughby

Raleigh, NC Pittsboro, NC Pitt County Coalition Against

Racism*
Gihan Perera Rebecca Schaffer
Greenville, NC
Miami, FL Durham, NC

Mattie Wilson Stoddard
Janet L. Perkins Mab Segrest
Jackson, MS
Little Rock, AR New London, CT

Dexter Wimbish
Charles Perry Jim Sessions
General Counsel, Southern
Raleigh, NC Knoxville, TN
Christian Leadership
Gwendolyn Pernell Blair Sharp‐Campbell Conference*
Sunflower County Parent’s and Hillsboro, WV Atlanta, GA

Student’s Organization*
Melbah M. Smith Samirra Wise
Indianola, MS
Brandon, MS Durham, NC

Suzanne Pharr
Mavis Stith Lynne Wolf
Knoxville, TN
Tarboro, NC Savannah, GA

Bryan Proffitt
Dante Strobino Nick Wood
Durham Association of
UE Local 150 & Bail Out People National Lawyers Guild*
Educators*
Movement* Durham, NC
Durham, NC
Durham, NC
Emily Young
William P. Quigley
Jeremy Tobin Raleigh, NC
Loyola University*
Jackson, MS
New Orleans, LA Carol P. Zippert

Charmeine Turner Eutaw, AL
Josh Reynolds
NAACP*

International Worker Justice
Goldsboro, NC
Campaign*
Durham, NC Lewis Turner

Rocky Mount, NC *Organization listed for
Willie Carol Roberts
identification purposes only.
Greenville, NC Trevia Turner

Winston‐Salem, NC
Zach Robinson
Pitt County Coalition Against Wayne Turner
Racism* North Carolina Green Party*
Greenville, NC Chapel Hill, NC

Randi M. Romo Liz Veazey
North Little Rock, AR Knoxville, TN

Dale Rosengarten Carla F. Wallace
McClellanville, SC Louisville, KY

Theodore Rosengarten Hollis Watkins
McClellanville, SC Jackson, MS


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SOUTHERN STRATEGIES COMMITTEE

As The South Goes, So Goes The Nation

Organizational Signatures Defenders for Freedom, Justice Kentucky Jobs With Justice

Power U Center Tennessee Alliance for Progress Ernest Boyd

Project South: Institute for the Tennessee Immigrant & Ebonie Brake

Durham, NC Durham, NC Mandy Carter

Network International Trade and Don Cavellini

Durham, NC Raleigh, NC Daniella Ann Cook

Knoxville, TN Charlottesville, VA Dorothy Cook

Atlanta, GA Memphis, TN Angela Crewspy

Barbara Dillon Kevin Alexander Gray Angaza Mayo‐Laughinghouse

Richmond, VA Claudia Horwitz Luckner Millien

Durham, NC Brenda Hyde Evan Milligan

Durham, NC Denise Jennings Regina M. Moorer

Knoxville, TN Rev. Lee Wyatt King Tirso Moreno

Raleigh, NC Sean Kosofsky Fank V. Morgan

Alcoa, TN Janine Lee Tara Morris

Emory, VA Connie Leeper Morgan Moss, Jr

Gastonia, NC Nell Levin Saladin Muhammad

Maryville, TN Patrick Lincoln Muna Mujahid

UE 160* George Lovelan Wilma S. Nedrick

Shameka Parrish‐Wright Mikki Sager Larry Wellman

Dr. Gwendolyn Patton Graciela Sanchez Tashika Wellman

ATTY. M. Travis Payne Zulayka Santiago Ruth Willoughby

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