Tag: Students for a Democratic Society

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. It is a detailed analysis of which issues are economic and potentially cross race and class lines, and which were about racism and…

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

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Carl Wittman, Organizer

Post author By Peg Johnston
Post date February 22, 2021

Carl Wittman, son of Jeanette Freeman Wittman and Walter Wittman. Carl Wittman lived the life of an organizer and he was pivotal in a number of movements. He grew up in Paramus NJ and went to Swarthmore College where he became involved in radical organizing, responding to racism and poverty in Cambridge, MD and later…

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