The Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization founded in December 1996 to provide legal advocacy and training for low-wage Black workers. Through direction action/public awareness campaigns, legal advocacy and popular education, we work with workers to create better workplace conditions and insure that all workers will be treated with dignity and respect and have equal access to good jobs and humane living conditions, regardless of their race, creed, gender or religion. In partnership with our members and other workers’ rights organizations, we convene public hearings, hold community town hall meetings and forums, health summits and other programs to improve the quality of life of the working poor and other residents of the state.

Our theory for change is rooted in anti-capitalism, anti-racism and anti-imperialism.  • We reject all forms of discrimination, including racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, patriarchy,  ableism and ageism. 

We believe in the power of the sufferers—the working poor—those robbed of voice and denied their rightful place in society. We believe if there is to be real change, they must always be in leadership of any movement for social justice and a new world order. We are a human rights organization that believes that, for the masses of those who are victims of all manner of injustices, to be made whole, there must be a new system based on equality and a redistribution of the world’s wealth.