Resources

Collections:

University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections

Grassroots Activism Project: This collection reflects the activism of grassroots leaders and organizations in the Southwest. Collections include the papers of Reies Lopez Tijerina, Frank Sanchez, Francisco “Kiko” Martinez and American Indian Movement organizers Robert Robideau and Kay Cole.

http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/#

Loyola- Marymount University Von der Ahe Library Archives and Special Collections

Thomas A. Gaudette Papers, 1938-1996. CSLA-18: This vast collection includes 21 boxes of materials saved and ordered chronologically by Tom Gaudette himself. Included are his organizing binders, speeches, correspondence with other organizers, including Saul Alinsky , pictures, recordings and videos.

http://www.lmu.edu/PageFactory.aspx?PageID=5490

Loyola-Marymount University Von der Ahe Library Archives and Special Collections

William F. Masterson Papers, 1960-2001. CSLA-19: This large collection consists of 65 archival boxes of records of Bill Masterson’s work with PICO and covers the development of various PICO organizing projects throughout the United States, as well as the internal growth and workings of PICO.

http://www.lmu.edu/Page5453.aspx

Brown University Library Hay Archives

Bob Cohen Papers 1952-1984

The Bob Cohen papers relate to his activist work as a student at Brown from 1966-1968, and as a community organizer in Providence and Boston around welfare rights, housing discrimination and education between 1968-1972. The collection contains original materials created in the context of this work, including press releases, research notes, minutes of meetings, leaflets, and other organizing materials, as well as news clippings covering the actual events.

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b4301005

Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Guide to Manuscripts for Civil Rights Resources
A link to the universities collection of Civil Rights historical material.

http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/vrr/civilrightsbiblio.shtml

Brown University Swearer Center for Public Service

Community Work: Community Organizing Archive
Brown alumni working as community organizers are actively seeking to preserve for the future the record of community organizing and activism in the late 20th century. In an exciting collaboration, the John Hay Library at Brown University, home of the Manuscripts section of the Brown University Library as well as the Brown University Archives, has agreed to accept, archive and store for posterity personal papers and organization records pertaining to community organizing.

http://swearercenter.brown.edu/resources/COMMORGARCIVE.html

COMM-ORG

A University of Wisconsin site that links academics and activists , theory and practice to improve community organizing.

http://comm-org.wisc.edu/

Networks:

ACORN
http://www.acorn.org/

APEN- Asian Pacific Islanders Network
http://www.apen4ej.org/

DART
http://www.thedartcenter.org/

Gamaliel
http://www.gamaliel.org/default.htm

IAF
http://www.industrialareasfoundation.org/

Indigenous Environmental Network
http://www.ienearth.org/

Intervalley
http://www.intervalleyproject.org/

NTIC
http://www.ntic-us.org/

NWFCO
http://www.nwfco.org/

OLTC
http://www.mcan-oltc.org/index.html

PICO
http://www.piconetwork.org/

PUSHBACK
http://www.pushbacknetwork.org/

RCNO
http://www.rcno.org/

Southern ECHO
http://www.southernecho.org/

SW Environmental Justice Network
http://www.sneej.org/

USAction
http://www.usaction.org/

WORC
http://www.worc.org/index.html