Background
Founded November 9, 2007 in New England, Civil Rights Council emerged from the socio-economic challenges that arose in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Its outlook expanded to include working and middle class issues.
The organization worked on two tracks:
- a short term track including greater social expenditures to house internally displaced people in the United States impacted by hurricanes, specifically, working to expand federal funding in order to provide these Americans with housing; and
- a long term track with weekly calls to action to galvanize the American public to "call attention to injustice wherever it lies."
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