Base Building From ScratchAn Organizing Module
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Module 7 · 35 min · 5 pages

Georgia case study: a lineage of Black-led base building

~35 min total · Earn: Georgia Lens

Every method in this course was practiced, refined, and proven in Georgia by Black organizers — from Highlander's Citizenship Schools to SNCC's field work in Albany and Atlanta, through the NAACP's voter registration drives, to the modern infrastructure built by Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown, Helen Butler, Nse Ufot, and Tamieka Atkins. This module walks that lineage and shows you how the methods compound across generations.

The modern Georgia base · a coalition, not a hero org six Black-led organizations playing complementary roles on overlapping bases the same Black households · the same churches · the same leaders People's Agenda voter ed + protection Helen Butler New GA Project registration at scale Abrams · Ufot Fair Fight voter protection Stacey Abrams Black Voters Matter joy + South-wide LaTosha Brown ProGeorgia coalition table Tamieka Atkins SNCC lineage Baker · Moses Hamer · Sherrod Specialization + coordination + shared base = power that wins states
Module 7 overview diagram. The modern Georgia organizing infrastructure as a coalition of Black-led organizations playing specialized roles on overlapping bases.

Pages in this module

  1. 7.1 Highlander, Albany, and the SNCC years in Georgia
  2. 7.2 Helen Butler and the People's Agenda — the bridge years
  3. 7.3 Stacey Abrams, the New Georgia Project, and Nse Ufot
  4. 7.4 LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter, and Tamieka Atkins
  5. 7.5 Module 7 checkpoint and synthesis