Early field organizing in the Alinsky model. Extensive experience in building statewide coalitions (labor, consumer, environmental, utilities). Early adoption of electoral strategies to accompany issue campaigns. Citizens Action Campaign; Illinois Public Action; nationwide Public Action; moved into electoral organizing in the late ‘70’s.
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Creamer, Robert, 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 …
