IREHR in Greensboro

IREHR’s Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart visited Greensboro, North Carolina for an important conference that brought together organizers in the fight for $15 from across the South to tackle questions of racial justice. The conference, “Organizing Poor and Working-Class Whites: The Challenge of Building a Multiracial Movement,” was held June 17-18. Leonard and Devin opened up discussion on opposition with a talk on “The Southern Strategy, the Tea Party, and White Nationalist Support for Trump.”