Raised Voices: Calling in Courageous Conversations

Advocacy plays a crucial role in social work by driving the essential goals of social justice, equality, and the promotion of human dignity. It empowers the underserved, ensuring that marginalized communities receive the attention they deserve. Through effective advocacy, individuals learn about their rights and how to assert them, fostering a more just society.

Raised Voices: Calling in Courageous Conversations provides social workers the unique opportunity to learn from Percy Green, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, the man responsible for not only climbing the St. Louis’ Gateway Arch to protest the exclusion of blacks from federal contracts and jobs related to its construction, engaging in St. Louis's most famous civil rights action: the protest against the Veiled Prophet Ball; but also for the 1973 landmark Supreme Court Case McDonnell Douglas v. Green which remains among the most frequently cited cases in American jurisprudence. The case was ultimately decided in Green's favor and clarified…