New Orleans In the early 1970s, I used to run into Walter Nunn all the time. He and his wife were the primary leaders of the ACORN group in Oak Forest. He sat on the ACORN board in Little Rock and statewide in those days, but was always more of a back-of-the-room guy, than the …
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The Legacy of Fighting Blockbusting is Residential Diversity
New Orleans Studies of the largest 100 school districts in the United States indicate that there is such extensive re-segregation that schools are more segregated now than they were almost 50 years ago. Research on communities indicates that racial segregation in housing is part of the vicious cycle driving continued segregation in city after city. …
With the Occupy Little Rock General Assembly
Little Rock We were visiting in the old Little Rock ACORN office about books, campaigns, and organizing. This conversation led to an invitation by Robert Nunn, son of an Arkansas ACORN leader from the old Oak Forest group and the anti-blockbusting campaign and old friend from 40 years ago, Walter Nunn, to come down and …