Joyce Johnson

Template:TOCnestleft Joyce Johnson is a North Carolina activist. She is married to Rev. Nelson Johnson. Like her husband, she was once a member of the Communist Workers Party.

African Liberation Support Committee

The African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), a black activist organization that supported Pan Africanism, was organized at a conference in September 1972 in Detroit, Michigan.

In 1974, the National Secretariat was: International Representative - Dawolu Gene Locke, Houston, Texas; Information Coordinator - Carl Turpin, Washington, D.C.; Administrative Secretary - Jeledi Endesha, South Bend, Indiana; At-Large - Joyce Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina; At-Large - Owusu Sadaukai, Durham, North Carolina; At-Large - Imamu Baraka, Newark, New Jersey; At-Large - Jeanette Walton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and At-Large - Ethel Shefton, Boston, Massachusetts.

Black Liberation Theoreticians

Circa 2012, a Black Left Unity Directory;

Ashaki Binta/NC, William Darity /NC, Ajamu Dillahunt /NC, Joyce Johnson /NC, Nelson Johnson /NC, Joseph Jordan, Julianne Malveaux / NC, Shafeah M'Balia, Naeema Muhammad /NC, Saladin Muhammad /NC, Mark Anthony Neal /NC, Ed Whitfield /NC, Leah Wise / NC.

Micah and Repairers of the Breach

Micah and Repairers of the Breach:Spirituality and Social Justice Conference, was convened July 26, 2013, at Rebuilding Broken Places CDC 2105 North William Street, Goldsboro, North Carolina.

Leaders in the social justice movement explore key justice issues & the responsibility of the church

Speakers

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, The Holy Spirit, Faith and Social Justice.

Panelists

• Rev. Dr. John Mendez, Exegesis and Psychology of Micah 6:8
• Rev. Jonathan Hartgrove, Meditation and Reflection - The Keys to a Prophetic Conscience and Engagement
• Rev. Dr. Willie Jennings, Embracing a Theology of Transformation
• Rev. Nelson Johnson and Mrs. Joyce Johnson, Organizing the Church for Justice Ministry
• Professor Barbara Zelter, Activism from the Eyes of a Social Worker and Theologian
• Rev. Kojo Nantambu, Religious Emphasis Advocacy Project for the NC NAACP
• Dr. Timothy Tyson, Contributions to Civil Rights and Social Justice 1868-1968
• Al McSurely
• Rev. Curtis Curtis Everette, Gatewood Reflections on HKonJ
• Mary Williams, Embracing the Music of Social Justice

Beloved Community Center/Moral Mondays

Housed in a brick church on a residential corner in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Beloved Community Center is a living monument to the city’s role in civil and human rights struggles, from the early 1960s to the present. Pay it a visit and the people who run the place will point out their younger selves in the decades-old photos of rallies and voter-registration drives that cover the walls. They’ll recount a standoff between local black students and the police in 1969 that left a 20-year-old dead. They’ll tell you how they organized a citywide truth and reconciliation commission after members of the Klan gunned down five people in the Greensboro massacre of 1979. They’ll talk about why, nearly a decade ago, they supported black and Latino workers in the state who tried to unionize a pork-processing plant despite management’s effort to intimidate them with immigration raids. And they’ll look at you quizzically if you ask, as I did when I visited in May, why they joined the Moral Monday movement, which has upended North Carolina’s politics and dominated headlines for the past year.

“There wasn’t a joining,” says Joyce Johnson, a co-founder of the center. “There was a flow.”

Given the news coverage, it’s easy to think that the Moral Mondays protests and Forward Together—the movement behind the Monday mobilizations—came out of nowhere. It’s easy to believe that more than 900 people were arrested while engaging in civil disobedience last spring and summer because the laws passed by North Carolina’s conservative legislature and signed by Republican Governor Pat McCrory were just too draconian for a state accustomed to a more moderate leadership. It’s easy to read the accounts of teachers outraged by attacks on tenure, or swing voters upset by McCrory’s refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and think that the mobilization is under way because politics—aided by model legislation crafted by ALEC and funding from the Koch brothers—just got too ugly in the Tar Heel State.

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