Tag: SDS

An Interracial Movement of the Poor?

Post author By Peg Johnston
Post date February 22, 2021

This 1963 mimeographed article was written by Carl Wittman and Tom Hayden based on observations of their work in poor neighborhoods in Newark, NJ organizing around issues of housing, jobs, and discrimination.

Tags Neward 1963 neighborhood organizing, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden

Wittman

Carl Wittman, Organizer

Post author By Peg Johnston
Post date February 22, 2021

Carl Wittman, son of Jeanette Freeman Wittman and Walter Wittman, lived the life of an organizer and he was pivotal in a number of movements.

Tags Allan Troxler, Community Organizing Cambridge MD 1962, Early AIDS Activism, Economic Research and Action Project, English Country Dance, ERAP, Gay Manifesto, Port Huron Statement, RFD magazine for rural gays, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, Swarthmaore College early 60's