Booth, Heather Tobis

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Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Booth, Heather (interviewee); Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:: Civil rights; Coalitions; Community organization; Health care; Identity affiliation; Immigrants -- Civil rights; Individual membership organization; Institutional membership organization; Issue affiliation; Labor rights; National organization; Older people; Poverty; Statewide organization; Utilities; Voting rights; Whites; Women
Local ID:: bdr:420358; bdr420358
Extent:: 1 DVD; 0:42:03

Abstract:: Being open to the strengths of movement, community-based, single-issue, electoral, and identity-based organizing. Change depends on historical openings, elected leadership that is open, understanding the opposition, and united constituencies. She provides a good look at the strategy/coalition-building level of organizing. Mississippi Freedom Summer; Anti-Viet Nam war organizing; labor organizing; founded The Midwest Academy which trains organizers nationwide; political organizing; consultation with Democratic National Committee, AFL-CIO.
Notes:: Booth, Heather Tobis, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library; Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

"Booth, Heather Tobis" (2009). Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:420358/

Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews

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 …
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