DRUM MAJOR AWARD Damien Goodmon

Exec. Director Crenshaw Subway Coalition Damien Goodmon is the Executive Direc-tor of the nonprofit Crenshaw Subway Coalition and Chair of United Community Associations. Both organizations seek to empower stake-holder groups in the area of Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw-Hyde Park and highlight the issues of rail safety and equitable transportation plan-ning in the pursuit of racial and economic jus-tice for South Los Angeles. Mr. Goodmon has served on National Campaigns including Wesley Clark for Presi-dent and StopJohnRoberts.com. Mr. Goodmon currently lives in Leimert Park, where he is the immediate past Co-Chair of the community's neighborhood council. He is a recipient of the 2008 LAUSD Trailblazer Award for “championing the rights of the masses of all American children,” and the 2012 New Frontier Democratic Club Community Ser-vice Award. He was honored in 2009 by LA Weekly, and was recognized as the Issues Advocate of the Year in 2010 by the Urban Issues Forum. For his many local and national pursuits for social change, Mr. Goodmon has been profiled in local and national media outlets, including CNN, NBC and the Los Angeles Times. He has authored opinion editorials for the L.A. Daily News, L.A. Business Journal, Los Angeles Wave, Our Weekly and numerous others.

ROSA PARKS AWARD Maria Elena Durazo

Secretary Treasurer of LA County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO

Maria Elena Durazo was elected to serve as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO in 2006 & was re-elected to her second term with overwhelming delegate support in 2010. Through more than 300 local unions, the L.A. County Federation of Labor represents over 800,000 workers in every key industry. Before leading the L.A. County Federation, Maria Elena was elected as President and built the hotel workers un-ion UNITE-HERE, Local 11, into one of the most active unions in Los Angeles County. She became the first Latina elected to the Executive Board of HERE International Union in 1996, and in 2004, became Executive Vice President of UNITE-HERE International. Maria Elena has served on several com-missions including the L.A. City Commission on Airports, Parks and Recreation & the Cali-fornia State Coastal Commission. Maria Elena served as Vice Chair to the 2008 Democratic National Convention Com-mittee and as a National Co-Chair for Presi-dent Barack Obama’s Campaigns in 2008 and 2012. In 2010, Maria Elena was named the third most influential non-elected California official by the Capitol Weekly in its Top 100 List. Maria Elena is a graduate of St. Mary’s College in Moraga and earned a law degree from the People’s College of Law in 1985.

PRESIDENT’S AWARD Rev. Eric P. Lee

Immediate Past President of SCLC of Greater L.A.

Rev. Eric P. Lee was recently appointed President of the Black Community, Clergy & Labor Alliance (BCCLA). BCCLA is an independ-ent and social activist organization dedicated to representing, promoting and protecting the eco-nomic interests and well-being of the Black com-munity and Black workers and to working with labor unions on issues of shared interests and mutual benefit in the joint struggle for social and economic justice. Rev. Lee is immediate past President/CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference-Los Angeles. Rev. Eric P. Lee is a founding member of the Stand For Security Coalition, organizing Afri-can American Security Officers into a union; Diversity Task Force member, reintegrating Afri-can Americans into the hotel industry; founding member of the Alliance for Equal Opportunity in Education, a collaboration that forced UCLA to create a more inclusive admissions policy; found-ing member of Coalition for Black Student Equity, purposed to improve the quality of education for Black students; member, LAUSD Teacher Effec-tiveness Task Force; and co-convener of Black Community, Clergy & Labor Alliance. Rev. Lee is an outspoken advocate for edu-cation reform, immigration reform, LGBT equality and racial and economic equality. Rev. Lee has B.S. from U.C. Berkeley, a Masters from Azusa Pacific University, and a Masters of Divin-ity from Bible Believers Christian College and Seminary.

SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONAL AWARD

Black Worker Center & Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Director

The Los Angeles Black Worker Center is a dynamic table of workers, organized labor, community-based organizations, clergy, students, and scholars working collectively to improve the position of the African-American working class, facilitate co-empowerment of workers and potential workers, and strengthen the voice of LA’s social and economic justice community. We have two locations, one in the Paul Robeson Community Center in South LA and the other at the UCLA Downtown La-bor Center in MacArthur Park. The Los Angeles Black Worker Center (BWC) project grew out of a combi-nation of seven years of experience in low-wage worker organizing in South Los An-geles, developing leadership of Black un-ionists in the African American Union Leadership School (AAULS), a popular education program at the UCLA Labor Center, and the challenge to sustain pro-gressive labor-community-university coali-tions over the long term. The Labor Center is a vital re-source for training workers and students and influencing government policy to cre-ate jobs that are good for workers and their communities, to improve the quality of existing jobs in the low-wage economy, and to strengthen the process of immigrant integration, especially among youth and students.

Program Mistress of Ceremony .................................................................Alice Goff Opening / Call to Order ............................................................................... Prayer ...............................Pastor Taurus L. Myhand, Ward AME Church Old Testament Scripture ............................ Lorenz Willis, CLM Ministries New Testament Scripture ........... Aswan Morrison, High School Student Selection “Black National Anthem” ................................... Brenda Jackson Welcome and Occasion .......... Brother James Johnson, SEIU Local 721 History of SCLC .................. Ms. KarmaNia Smart, High School Student Introduction of the Drum Major for Justice Awardee ...... Rev. K.W. Tulloss Pastor Weller Street Baptist Church Drum Major for Justice Recipient ................................. Damien Goodmon Executive Director, Crenshaw Subway Coalition Introduction of the Rosa Parks Awardee .....................................Alice Goff Chairwoman Elect SCLC Board Rosa Parks Award Recipient ...................................... Maria Elena Durazo Executive Secretary LA County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO Musical Selection .............................................. Divine Deliverance Choir Introduction of President’s Awardee ........................... Danny Bakewell, Jr. President’s Award Recipient ............................................. Rev. Eric P. Lee President of the Black Community, Clergy, Labor Alliance Introduction of the Social Justice Organizational Award ..............................

Social Justice Organizational Awardee ................. Black Worker Center & Lola Smallwood-Cuevas Offering ....................................................................... Finance Committee Presentation of the Thomas Kilgore Prophetic Witness Award .... Pastor William M. Campbell Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church Recipients of the Thomas Kilgore Prophetic Witness Award Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles & Southern California Selection “Impossible Dream” .......................................... Brenda Jackson

The Installation of the Board of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles Rev. Xavier Thompson

Pastor of Southern M.B.C. & President Elect of The Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles and Southern California

The Installation of the President and CEO

of the SCLC of Greater Los Angeles Administration of Oath, Elder Norman Copland,

Presiding Elder Los Angeles District of the Southern California Conference, of the AME Church

Installation Prayer and Blessing ........................ Pastor Thembekila Smart Senior Pastor of Christ Liberation Ministries Laying on of Hands ....................................................... Community Pastors Remarks ................................... President and CEO William D. Smart, Jr Benediction ............................................................. Pastor Donald Wilson True Way Missionary Baptist Church

Pastor William D. Smart, Jr. President & CEO

SCLC of Greater Los Angeles Rev. William D. Smart Jr. is currently Co-Pastor of the Christ Liberation CME church in Los Angeles. He also is Director of External Training and Outreach at the Los Angeles Alliance for A New Economy a nationally rec-ognized nonprofit organization.

Rev. Smart has pastored CME congregations in Birmingham, Alabama, Apex; North Carolina, Forest City, Arkansas; Jackson, Tennessee Norfolk, Virginia; and Los Angeles, California. In August of 2002-August 2010 he and his wife founded and pastored an independent non-denominational congregation Christ Liberation Ministries. . He started working as a faith-based outreach coordinator with Bill Clinton’s gu-bernatorial campaign in 1984, and subsequently worked on Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns. He also served as a clergy outreach coordinator for the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Campaigns. He recently served as the National Director of African American Clergy Outreach with Hillary Clinton for President Campaign. Rev. Smart worked as an adjunct professor of world religion and biblical studies at Lane College in Jackson, where he also served as interim Vice President. He was President of the NAACP in Jackson, a Board Member of the SCLC in Bir-mingham, President of the Forest City Ministerial Alliance and State Director of Economic Development for the NAACP in Tennessee. He served as Co-Chair of the Black-Brown Unity Commission, a Board Member of Community Call to Ac-tion in Los Angeles, and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for Greater Los Angeles Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a national advisory board member of the American Values Network. Rev. Smart received his B.S. from Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama, and a Master’s of Divinity from Duke University. He lives with his wife, Rev. Them-bekila Coleman-Smart, and three children, Gregory Jeremiah, KarmaNia Keturah, and Jehoshua -Jireh in Los Angeles.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles

2013 Board of Directors

Alice Goff

Rev. William Monroe Campbell

Attorney Jamie Wright

Lamar Lyons

Presiding Elder Norman Copland

Rev. Bob Gay

Rev. K.W. Tulloss

Rev. Steve Neal

Jimmie Woods Gray

James Johnson

The SCLC would like to extend special thanks to Doug Moore and the United Domestic Workers of America for their generous support towards this occa-

sion. We would also like to thank everyone for coming out tonight to celebrate Dr. King and the SCLC of Greater Los Angeles.