ew Orleans It isn’t hard to hear the death rattle of desperation in the latest farcical efforts of Congressman Steve King to try to revive a dying political career and a blogger trying to flack a mail-order book at the expense of ACORN, the once great community organization. King tacked an amendment on a Homeland …
Tag: ACORN
An ACORN Museum in Little Rock
Little Rock Zach Polett worked with me for more than 30 years, so basically forever. I was first introduced to Mary Mayeaux, who would become his wife, by my high school buddy, Danny Russell who was working with her at the welfare office in New Orleans when ACORN opened up there in 1976. Danny and …
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Museum
Tyronza, Arkansas Working closely with Sam Mitchell of Ottawa, Ontario since the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, we have been stewarding the H.L. Mitchell Scholarship Fund in honor of his father, one of the founders and the long time chief organizer of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU), who I tracked down and got …