The SPLC continued its mission as a catalyst for racial justice in
2023...
friend,
The Southern Poverty Law Center continued its mission as a catalyst
for racial justice in 2023, refusing to back down from challenges and
a difficult environment for many of the communities we serve. Here is
a look back at a few key accomplishments from another busy year
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We strengthened our focus on local communities with the launch of our
Alabama state office. The new office is part of an expansion of
the SPLC's efforts to work in deep partnership with communities
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as we fight injustice and inequality across the South. It is the
second such office, following the opening of the Mississippi office
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in 2022. The goal is to help form a more powerful advocacy network to
confront longstanding racial and economic inequities.
We helped preserve historic Black communities in 2023. The SPLC
helped combat a development plan targeting the historic Black
community of Eatonville, Florida
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. We also urged historic designation of Royal, Florida
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. The hope is that this work will help uphold the dignity of place and
people while creating economic opportunities from which everyone
benefits. It's an important issue as communities of color often
face the threat of land loss through development and other
issues.
In a nation known as the world's leader in incarceration, we
fought the criminalization of Black and Brown people. A settlement
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in an SPLC case at an immigrant detention center in Georgia marked a
step toward ending abuses at for-profit immigrant prisons. At the
United Nations in Geneva
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, the SPLC highlighted the issue of solitary confinement, an excessive
and particularly brutal practice that is especially prevalent in the
states we serve.
We fought the criminalization of poverty on multiple fronts. Our
intervention ended criminal prosecutions
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over late trash bills in the small Alabama town of Valley. The SPLC
also continued to push back against laws criminalizing unhoused
people, securing a federal injunction
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against two Alabama statutes that criminalized soliciting donations
and begging.
The SPLC continued combating hate and extremism. In 2023, we
documented 1,225 hate and antigovernment extremist groups
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operating across the U.S. We also highlighted the rising threat
of anti-student inclusion groups
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that use the banner of "parents' rights" to erase
Black history from schools, ban books and censor educators teaching
diversity, among other issues opposed by these groups.
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Sincerely,
Your friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center
The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond,
working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy,
strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of
all people.
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