Broad background in movement activism (civil rights, anti-war, black nationalism) led to openness to building permanent organizations run by their members. Realistic view of the contrasts and similarities between individual-membership based organizations and institution-based ones. Began at Iowa Coalition for Community Involvement; then an institution-based organization in Fresno; then Washington Innercity Self-Help; then New Jersey Housing and Community Network.
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Battle, Paul, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
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The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
