Rev. Dr. William Barber II is a Protestant minister and political leader in North Carolina. He is a member of the national Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for whom he is also Chair of the NAACP's Legislative Political Action Committee. He was awarded the 2006 Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Esq. Award for legal activism, the highest award in the NAACP for legal redress for advocacy, he was the 2008 recipient of the Thalheimer Award for most programmatic NAACP State Conference, and in 2010 he won the National NAACP Kelly M. Alexander Humanitarian Award. Since 2006 he has been president of the NAACP's North Carolina state chapter?the largest in the Southern USA and the second-largest in the country. Rev. Dr. Barber has served as pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, in Goldsboro, NC since 1993. He has led "Moral Mondays" civil-rights protests in NC, beginning in April 2013. The Wall Street Journal credited Barber's NAACP chapter with forming a coalition in 2007 named Historic Thousands on Jones Street People's Assembly, composed of 93 North Carolina advocacy groups. 

August 30th, 1963 in (Age 61)