Project
South.
Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide
Organizing, political education, movement lawyering, community power, and movement infrastructure rooted in the U.S. South.
A lot of history happened before anyone thought to post it.
For four decades, Project South has organized across communities, generations, movements, and borders.
Some of that history lives in reports. Some lives on old hard drives. Some lives only in the memories of the people who were there. It is time to make the record visible.
Movements need more than moments. They need infrastructure.
Project South works across four connected areas: building community power, organizing across the South, resisting state repression, and strengthening the systems movements need to continue.
The movement isn't gone. You just may not be seeing it.
Hundreds of organizations are preparing to meet in Mississippi. What happens after they leave matters just as much.
Community safety cannot begin and end with policing.
Forty years later, the people who came through Project South are still carrying the work forward.
Project South didn't only build campaigns. It helped build people.
A generation of young people, organizers, educators, advocates, and community leaders passed through Project South. Their stories are part of the impact.
Meet the people who carried it forwardForty years of movement history should not disappear into hard drives, boxes, and memory.
Speeches. Campaigns. Youth programs. Assemblies. Photographs. Video. Organizing manuals. Political education. Legal struggles. People. Places. Victories. Losses. Lessons.
Enter the archiveHistory doesn't continue by itself.
Project South's next chapter will be built the same way the last forty years were built: through people willing to organize, learn, support one another, and act.