OUR SHARED MISSION 1 TO BE FREE AT LAST… GROW THE MOVEMENT! GO GROUND!

Samuel DeWitt Proctor conference, Inc. With Vision…By Faith…Through Action Strengthening Churches…Empowering Leaders… Transforming Communities SDPC MISSION The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (SDPC) is committed to nurture, sustain, and mobilize the African American faith community in collaboration with civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders to address critical needs of human and social justice within local, national, and global communities. SDPC seeks to strengthen the individual and collective capacity of thought leaders and activists in the church, academy, and community through education, advocacy, and activism. 2

A NEW PATH FORWARD 3 “TO BE FREE AT LAST” CAMPAIGN

“TO BE FREE AT LAST” 4 START-UP PROJECT GOALS

SUMMIT PROCESS: 5

RECLAIMING THE SPIRIT… We did it before! We can do it again! 6 “I look out on the full moon and the ghosts of my forefathers rise and fall with the undulating waves…In the deep, heavy darkness of the foul-smelling hole of the ship,…they held their breath against the agony…[and I ask,] “What tools of the spirit were in their hands with which to cut a path through the wilderness of their despair?”  (With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman, p. 193) .)

“WILDERNESS OF DESPAIR” 12 Junctures in the Criminal Justice Process Where Race and Class Cause Cumulative Disadvantage Cumulative Disadvantage Law Enforcement Deployment/ Arrest Arraignment Bail/Detention Public Defense Jail Preadjudication Decisions Jury Pre-Sentence Report Sentencing Probation Jail/Prison Parole Alternatives to Incarceration/Reentry Services

DALLAS II OUTCOMES 8

OUR SHARED MISSION 9 TO BE FREE AT LAST… GROW THE MOVEMENT! GO GROUND!