History
The organization that would become Stop Predatory Gambling began forming in the early 1990's as state and community leaders challenged efforts to bring commercial gambling into their communities. Tom Grey, a Rockford, Illinois resident who fought against a proposed casino in his community, emerged as a leader for the movement representing a diverse national coalition of groups and individuals. As the movement continued to grow, Stop Predatory Gambling Foundation was formed in 2008 to spotlight their concern that government's policy of promoting casinos and state lotteries is predatory and has been a failure. At the September 2008 launch of Stop Predatory Gambling Foundation in National Harbor, Maryland, Dr. Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil Rights Movement, gave the keynote address in which he discussed government policy surrounding predatory gambling.
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