One of the leaders/founders of environmental justice organizing in the South; particular interest in working with young people. Initially worked for Kentuckians for the Commonwealth on strip mining abuses; mentored interns assigned to environmental justice organizations; regional organizer for Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste; developed Southern Community Partners to give assistance to small environmental justice organizations; Louisiana Environmental Action Network; Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment; then became a 3rd grade school teacher.
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Dixon, Hubert, 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 …
