Detailed explanation of how grape and lettuce boycotts were managed in the 1970’s. Good description of why movement vision is important in contrast to traditional organizing’s emphasis on smaller actionable issue campaigns. Early organizing in his neighborhood over redlining; work for United Farm Workers in Texas, Chicago, Buffalo, Houston, Arizona, Washington state. Later worked for Center for Third World Organizing.
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De Avila, Alfredo, 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 …
