Dissolution
Civil Rights Council disbanded on March 19, 2010. Organizational leadership sought a new name and a broader policy framework. In addition, Hurricane Katrina ceased to be the organizing framework within which Civil Rights Council worked. Civil rights were one among several issues the Council sought to work on. Civil rights didn't embrace a broad enough set of public policy issues as an issue area.
Structural reasons for dissolution revolved around an absence of training for future leadership. Civil Rights Council was a fantastically successful pilot program in one congressional district, that never developed the capacity to self actuate. In addition, the absence of an original name, confusion with other non-liberal civil rights councils, issue confusion and other challenges were more than leadership was able to resolve.
During the course of the 27 month pilot the organization moved from centrist to progressive perspectives and broadened the array of issues it worked on. A shift in emphasis occurred from focusing on being a single issue group to a multi-issue group. A single issue campaign shifted to call to action, weekly calls to action to galvanize the American public to "call attention to injustice wherever it lies."
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