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Michael R. McCray Michael R. McCray – Peace Hero 2008
Nominated By Marcel Reid, President of Washington DC ACORN

I would like to nominate Michael McCray, Attorney at Law for the Arkansas Peace & Justice Award. Attorney McCray has been a staunch advocate for strong civil rights, civil liberties and human rights enforcements for the last 12 years. A champion for grassroots and community advocacy, Attorney McCray believes in the philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the struggle for Social and Economic Justice as essential Human Rights concerns. Michael McCray’s community advocacy is broadly categorized in the following areas;



  • Social Justice including Federal Workers and Whistleblowers Rights
  • Social Justice including Judicial Accountability and Reform Advocacy
  • Economic Justice including Mortgage Fraud and Predatory Lending Reform
  • Economic Justice including Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Activism


    • As a civil rights lawyer and federal whistleblower, Michael became known as the “$40,000,000 Whistleblower” when he reported over $40 million in government waste, fraud and abuse at the United States Department of Agriculture. Latter Michael became a Judicial Reform Activist when he reported significant judicial misconduct against U.S. v. Microsoft Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and the Ashcroft Justice Department. Michael’s judicial complaint contributed to Judge Jackson’s early retirement. McCray is the chairperson of the 3-5-7 Commission, a judicial reform association dedicated to exposing judicial misconduct through quantifiably and statistically verifiable methods, to ensure that American citizens receive fair hearings and tribunals as provided for in the U.S. Constitution and declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As co-chair of the International Association of Whistleblowers (IAW), a sponsoring organization for Washington Whistleblower Week, Michael supports strong protections, including legislative and judicial reform for federal workers and congressional whistleblowers, America’s unsung heroes.

    Finally, with over 12 years of civil rights and community economic development experience, and based in part on his experiences with the A. Phillip Randolph Institute (APRI) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Michael has developed significant expertise in labor organizing and employment law, worker’s rights, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, and various general business, real estate and civil rights disputes. A “Fearless” whistleblower and judicial reform advocate, McCray is a member of the No FEAR collation, which is responsible for passing the Notification of Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, and is actively engaged in seeking strong judicial reform provisions to be included in No FEAR II. Additionally, as a member and Board nominee of Amnesty International, Michael is engaged in the international struggle for human rights and he fights for full implementation of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" which was first adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.


    Michael McCray is known as a tenacious advocate and champion for the underdog; one who fights for the rights of others . . . with a never say die mentality.  Michael champions individual and community causes; and business and real estate development projects with a sense of righteousness and justice.  Michael spent his formative years in Pine Bluff, Arkansas when the city had the dubious reputation of being ranked the worse city in America – two years in a row.  From this environment, Michael developed a strong sense of social responsibility and a burning desire to improve the living and working conditions of people living in communities like his hometown.

    A native Arkansan, Michael traveled to Washington, D.C. with the Clinton Administration and began his community development career working on the Presidential Empowerment Initiative.  Also  known as the Federal Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC) Initiative where he served with distinction as community development specialist and a National Speaker on community economic development issues and technology for USDA; McCray toured the country conducting technology training and speaking engagements at three White House Empowerment Zone Conferences and four Regional Enterprise Community Meetings across the country.  Other featured speakers at these events included Vice President Al Gore, Secretary Andrew Cuomo,Secretary Rodney Slater and Carol Rasco, Special Assistant to the President.

    Michael continued his community development career by consulting on single-asset and master-plan projects for T.D.Jakes Ministries, a west Las Vegas shopping center, the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education National Historic Site, Grider Field/PineBluff Municipal Airport and is a partner in a development company engaged in redeveloping the Historic Winecoff Hotel, due to which he is actively combating the national predatory lending and mortgage fraud epidemic.  

    As a National Board Delegate to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and as a principal for  Congress Against Racism and Corruption in Law Enforcement (CARCLE), Michael champions predatory lending, mortgage fraud and sub-prime mortgage lending reforms.  He was a Featured Speaker at Fraud Awareness Committee (FAC) Mortgage Fraud Rally which was covered by Atlanta Affiliates Fox 5, CBS 46, Channel 11.  Other Speakers included Dexter Wimbish, General Counsel for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Joe Beasly, Regional Director for Rainbow/Push Coalition and Radio-One Personality, Myron "MagicMan" Gigger.

    Finally, with  over  12  years of civil rights and community economic development experience, and based in part on his experiences with the A.Phillip Randolph Institute (APRI) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Michael has developed significant expertise in labor organizing and employment law, worker’s rights, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, and various general business, real estate and civil rights disputes.  

    A “Fearless” whistle blower and judicial reform advocate, McCray is a member of the No FEAR coalition, which is responsible for passing the Notification of Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, and is actively engaged in seeking strong judicial reform provisions to be included in No FEAR II.  Additionally, as a member of Amnesty International, Michael is engaged in the international struggle for human rights and he fights for full implementation of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" which was first adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

    Michael is listed as Project Director and Corporate Treasurer of CARCLE.





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