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History

The original Southern Girl Convention was the brainchild of the Women's Action Coalition in Memphis, Tennessee, and was held in July of 1999 at the University of Memphis campus with a hundred participants from the South and all over the United States. Following the convention in Memphis, a group of local organizers from Louisville, Kentucky took up the task of organizing the second annual Southern Girls Convention, and since then the convention has been brought to a different Southern community each year: in Louisville in 2000, then Auburn, Alabama in July 2001; Athens, Georgia in July 2002; Asheville, North Carolina in March 2003; Memphis, Tennessee in August 2004; Baton Rouge, Louisiana in June 2005; and Houston in June 2006.

We are currently compiling some information and materials on Southern Girls Convention over the years; this should be available in the not-too-distant future. In addition, we have preserved past conventions' websites and links to press coverage; you can find them gathered here under Past Conventions.

Past Conventions

What?Where?When?Who?

Ninth Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Tallahassee, Florida June 15–17, 2007

Eighth Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Houston, Texas June 23–25, 2006

Seventh Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 17–19, 2005 Sponsored by Women Organizing Women

Sixth Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Memphis, Tennessee August 12–14, 2004 Sponsored by Women's Action Coalition

Fifth Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Asheville, North Carolina March 14–16, 2003

Fourth Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Athens, Georgia July 19–21, 2002

Third Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Auburn, Alabama July 20–22, 2001 Sponsored by Auburn Women's Organization and Free State Action.

Second Annual Southern Girls Convention		 Louisville, Kentucky July 7–9, 2000 Organized by members of Brat, Louisville Anti-Racist Action, the Autonomous Womyn's League, the Progressive Students League, Kentucky Student Progressive Network, and some with no affiliation.

The original Southern Girl Convention		 Memphis, Tennessee July 30–August 1, 1999. Sponsored by Women's Action Coalition.