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Workshop for Citizens of Excluded Communities
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The Workshop for Excluded Communities was held on Saturday, March 10, 2007 from 9:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Carthage, NC. More than 65 community activists, attorney, and representatives from non-profit organizations from around the state participated in the workshop.
Trainings topics included "The Problem and Effects of Exclusion," "Organizing for Services such as Water, Sewer, and Infrastructure," and "Annexation or Incorporation?". Activists and organizers from communities which are currently confronting or have successfully overcome the issue of municipal exclusion conducted the trainings. Anita Earls, Director of Advocacy at UNC's Center for Civil Rights served the keynote speaker.
Click here to view photos. Links to materials from the workshop, including the list of action steps, are provided below:
Conference Program
Maps of Excluded Communities
Glossary of Key Terms
Timeline of Exclusion and Action in Southern Moore County
Winning Your Case in the Court of Public Opinion
Brainstorming and Strategy Session |
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Exchange Program with Latino Residents from Modesto, CA
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In June 2005, residents of Jackson Hamlet, Midway, and Waynor Road in Moore County, NC, participated in an exchange program with Latino residents from Modesto, California experiencing a similar pattern of exclusion. The Modesto residents and their attorneys with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay area and California Rural Legal Assistance provided tours of the area.
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Modesto residents visited Moore County in November 2004. The exchange program helped both sets of residents recognize the issue as much larger than their particular community. They shared lessons learned and successful advocacy strategies.
See photos from the event here. |
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The Persistence of Political Segregation: Racial Underbounding in North Carolina
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Racial residential segregation remains a fact of life in the South. While there is less racial residential segregation in southern metropolitan areas than there is across the rest of the nation, we know little about racial segregation or its consequences in small towns across the South. This paper examines racial residential segregation in small North Carolina towns, focusing in particular on political exclusion as a form of segregation.
Click here for the full article. |
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Western NC Workshop for Excluded Communities
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Save the Date! Western NC Workshop for Excluded Communities
You are invited to the Workshop for Excluded Communities on Saturday, June 14, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Spindale, NC. All are welcome to attend. Registration is free, and lunch will be provided. Click here for registation form.
About the Workshop
It is common for predominantly minority communities to find themselves excluded from municipal services and benefits. Community activism can be successful in addressing the resulting problems. Such exclusion often results in a lower level of basic services such as water and sewer or no services at all, increased challenges in retaining family land, and a disproportionate share of hazardous facilities that threaten the community’s health. Excluded communities are also denied equal participation in local democratic processes. The purpose of the one-day, regional workshop is to educate and involve residents of excluded communities and to strengthen the networks between them. Rather than feeling powerless, united we can be powerful.
The workshop will be held at Isothermal Community College located at 286 ICC Loop Road Spindale, NC, Room 137 in the Business/Science Building. The Workshop for Citizens of Excluded Communities is hosted by the Southern Moore Alliance for Excluded Communities, Legal Aid Client Council, the UNC Center for Civil Rights, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
For more information, contact: Pearl Nealey, (828) 980-8346, pnmihys at hotmail.com OR Mary Hedgepeth, (252) 972-2100, MaryH at legalaidnc.org.
Feel free to forward this announcement to others! |
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Hilton Dunlap and Bobby Person - Recipients of a Nancy Susan Reynolds Award
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Hilton Dunlap and Bobby Person received the prestigious Nancy Susan Reynolds Awards from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for advocacy in November 2005.
For the full article, see: Carolina Newswire |
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Racial Exclusion in Moore County, NC
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In the years since Ida May Murchison began working at the Carolina Hotel, the center of the Pinehurst resort, much has changed in Moore County, North Carolina. In the forty-eight years she drove from her home in the African-American community of Jackson Hamlet to her job two miles away at the Carolina, Mrs. Murchison watched this sleepy, rustic golfing community slowly grow into a bustling, rapidly expanding hub for a multi-million dollar industry.
Read the entire press release here. |
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Moore County Maps
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Click here to see maps of Moore County, including a population density map and a map showing the black communities of the county. |
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