The Norman Foundation becomes an early funder of Southern Echo, investing in the next generation of civil rights organizing in Mississippi.
Southern Echo (Norman grantee 1992–2001, 2007) was co-founded in 1989 by Leroy Johnson, Mike Sayer, and Hollis Watkins — a civil rights leader who organized some of the first Woolworth sit-ins in Mississippi in 1961 and registered Black voters during…