President and Founder Dr. Quintessa Hathaway of the Hathaway Action Fund shall build a massive coalition of faith and philosophical leaders, civil, voting, and human rights leaders and organizations, Greek letter organizations, high school, college, and university student government association leaders, civil rights attorneys, and nonprofit partners in the one thousand three hundred fifty-three (1,353) counties throughout the South including the District of Columbia .

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The Work is to advance the social, political, legal, theoretical, historical, and economic cause of the southern United States of America. The organization strives to influence legislation, give voice through public advocation, bring mobilization, express the most promising strategization, provide organization, clearly articulate an agenda through oration, and partners with those in the field to conduct mass voter registration and expanding polling locations. Through citizenship education can shape the thoughts of the nation.

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A Reverse Great Migration is underway. We see the signs of vigorous urban migration and industrialization concomitant in every southern state. It is in the interest of the political figures and organizations to reallocate its human and financial capital from Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin to Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Each of these states has unlimited potential to determine, lead, and chart a new course for the country to follow. Unity of purpose is how a great power bloc will manifest. A compelling argument will be made within political circles holistically. The chief architect of our destiny as a democracy is found in the South and urban a

 

Southern change will require the mores, attitudes, and folkways of the grandchildren of former slaveholders, Dixiecrats, Reagan Democrats, and conservative whites to be torn down, and the theory of political patriarchy to pass away. We must build up high quality healthcare and erect world class medical facilities, create greater access to interdisciplinary prekindergarten three through twenty (preK3-20) educational systems and colleges and universities, and for organized labor to become a powerful force to remove the blight of income inequality and low wages in the region. 

  

The South is the final refuge of political imbalance against African Americans who are twenty-eight million (28,000,000) strong and fifty-six percent (56%) of the total demographic inhabits the locality. If America is to survive as a republic and a presidential democracy, we must loosen the reins of power and amplify financial prosperity in an equitable manner. 

  

We are living under what feels like an endless regime of meaningless chaos and social unrest. The equivalency is what I call the “Second Civil Rights Movement.” The 1965 Voting Rights Act was the crown jewel of the First Civil Rights Movement. In similar fashion, local, state, and the federal governments must achieve and execute on an agenda that enfolds the 14th and 15th Amendments, enshrine the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) into the Constitution, pass the jewels of the present Movement -- the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (JRLVRAA), Freedom to Vote Act (FTVA), and D.C. Admissions Act as affirmative remedies to abolish the residue of systemic racism and political inequality. The organization shall beat the drum for It requires African American institutions (i.e., nonprofits, public and private historically black colleges and universities) to be fully funded, and stating a message to the Black church around preaching and teaching with a new infusion of hope and an exclamation of courage.  

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The Hathaway Action fund aims to:

(a) beat the drum of change;

(b) be at the head of the regional, national, and international conversation when it comes to better policymaking, practice, and deeper engagement with those on the public square in their approach to politics;

(c) expand the tenets of urban education, student achievement and motivation, multicultural and culturally responsive education, educational policy analysis and implementation, the politics of education, and educational leadership;

(d) cultivate a new ecosystem that empowers and inspires a generation of changemakers, educators, founders, and public servants to accomplish remarkable results.