Southern Echo

About this original series

Southern Echo is a leadership development, education and training organization working to develop effective accountable grassroots leadership in the African-American communities in rural Mississippi and the surrounding region through comprehensive training and technical assistance programs. Our work has carried Southern Echo staff into 12 additional states across the south and southwest. Southern Echo's underlying goal is to empower local communities through effective community organizing work, in order to create a process through which community people can build the broad-based organizations necessary to hold the political, economic, educational, and environmental systems accountable to the needs and interests of the African-American community.

  • # Episodes

    31 episodes

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Episodes of Southern Echo

    • Play US Census Director Meets With Community Members - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      US Census Director Meets With Community Members

      US Census Director, Dr. Robert Groves, met with community members in Jackson, MS on June 3, 2010. An intergenerational gathering of more than 80 persons attended.

      • Release date
        Jun 10, 2010
      • Runtime
        04:45
    • Play Mike Sayer's Comments on School Consolidation - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Mike Sayer's Comments on School Consolidation

      Mike Sayer, Senior Organizer and Co-Founder of Echo, makes comments before the MS Governor's Commission on School Consolidation.

      • Release date
        Jun 7, 2010
      • Runtime
        07:09
    • Play Leroy Johnson's Comments on School Consolidation - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Leroy Johnson's Comments on School Consolidation

      Leroy Johnson, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Echo, makes comments before the MS Governor's Commission on School Consolidation.

      • Release date
        Jun 7, 2010
      • Runtime
        05:18
    • Play Marilyn Young's Comments on School Consolidation - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Marilyn Young's Comments on School Consolidation

      Marilyn Young, Echo Field Staff member, makes comments before the MS Governor's Commission on School Consolidation.

      • Release date
        Jun 7, 2010
      • Runtime
        04:29
    • Play Betty Petty's Comments on School Consolidation - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Betty Petty's Comments on School Consolidation

      Betty Petty, Senior Organizer and Director of Sunflower Parents and Students Organization, gives comments to the Governor's Commission on School Consolidation.

      • Release date
        Jun 7, 2010
      • Runtime
        09:39
    • Play Counting the Prison Population in the Census - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Counting the Prison Population in the Census

      Leroy Johnson, Executive Director and Co-Founder, discusses the importance of counting the prison population in the U.S. Census at a training with Right to the City NYC in New York City, NY.

      • Release date
        Feb 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:00
    • Play Importance of Community Members Getting Census Jobs - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Importance of Community Members Getting Census J...

      Mike Sayer, Senior Organizer and Co-Founder of Echo, discusses the importance of community members getting census jobs at training with Right to the City NYC in New York City, New York.

      • Release date
        Feb 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:21
    • Play Slavery & the Western Economy - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Slavery & the Western Economy

      Mike Sayer, Southern Echo's Senior Organizer and Co-Founder, discusses the impact of slavery on the Western Echo at a census and redistricting training with Right to the City NYC in New York City, NY.

      • Release date
        Feb 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        00:58
    • Play Accomplishing A Fair Census Count - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      Accomplishing A Fair Census Count

      Leroy Johnson, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Southern Echo, Inc., discusses the importance of accomplishing a fair census count with Right to the City NYC organizations in New York City, New York.

      • Release date
        Feb 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:01
    • Play It's about a movement, not a moment. - Southern Echo on Blip Southern Echo episodes on Blip

      It's about a movement, not a moment.

      Southern Echo was built upon the idea that real, sustained movement bulding is a much more powerful model than just working toward single, momentary victories. Co-founder and executive director Leroy Johnson talks about how Southern Echo has seen its focus on empowering people to achieve those victories has grown, through over fifteen years of movement building, to both celebrate the incredible benchmarks of success and continue to move toward the larger goal of keeping democracy true to its p...

      • Release date
        Oct 31, 2008
      • Runtime
        05:38
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