Grassroots Week is an idea transpired by Tashawna (Political Princess) Gill in the fall of 2014, with the purpose of looking to say, thank you, to Michigan’s Grassroots Community. Tashawna, a new precinct delegate, knew the importance of the job and how hard they worked. She focused on helping to grow the power of precinct delegates by training for free statewide through her organization called United Precinct Delegates. In 2022 State Rep. Mary Cavanagh helped to craft the resolution that passed the house June 21, 2022. Grassroot Week is a week to appreciate, acknowledge, highlight, promote, and honor precinct delegates, grassroots leaders, and movements throughout the state of Michigan. Honoring the people who are beyond all the historical movements. This will be a week where their names will be shouted from the rooftop. This will be a week where they will receive a much needed, thank you. Throughout the week the goal is to celebrate the different forms of grassroots (Precinct delegates / organizers) movements, Women Rights, LGBTQIA, and the Civil rights movement. We will also make it a week of action. Grassroots Week will begin on June 23 each year. A day that Highlights the civil rights movement. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr, and Detroit civil rights leaders and politicians marched for equality along Woodward Ave in Detroit on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in Detroit and spoke about a dream. It was a fraught moment in the history of the American civil rights movement.
