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Title:
ACORN Records, 1963-2010
Creator: ACORN (Organization) Quantity: 220.6 cubic feet (213 record center cartons and 24 archives boxes), 44 audio recordings, 3.4 cubic feet of photographs, transparencies and ephemera (3 record center cartons and 2 half archives boxes), 2.4 cubic feet of posters (24 oversize folders), and 120 video recordings
Unique Identifier: M93-238; M94-006; M94-045; M94-368; M98-059;M2001-170; M2003-066; M2004-128;
M2005-121; M2007-095; M2008-101; M2008-120; M2016-027; Audio 1510A; PH 7092; VBD 041-VBD
043; VDA 471-VDA 480; VFA 403; VHC 687-VHC 702
Abstract: Records of ACORN (Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now) and its first organizer, Wade Rathke, reflecting the
organization's goals of uniting welfare recipients with working people around issues of
economic justice, and its later diversification into politics and its growth into a
multi-state organization. The collection provides good documentation of community organizing
in the U.S. from 1965 to 2008 with information on welfare organizing, Vietnam veterans'
rights, local environmental issues, community control of radio and television, politics, and
social protest.
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