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Ron Chisom interviews

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Identifier: 2478

Content Description

The Ron Chisom interviews consist of three audiocassettes of interviews conducted with community organizer, activist, and co-founder of The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB). The interviews took place on March 27 and April 22, 2009. According to its mission statement, PISAB is a "national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation." The organization was founded by Chisom of New Orleans, Lousiana, and Dr. Jim Dunn of Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1980. The interviews were conducted by PISAB member Corrine F. Barnwell, with assistance by fellow PISAB member Orissa Arend. A partial transcription of the interviews in narrative form accompanies the audiocassettes. In the interviews, Chisom discusses his early organizing efforts while working as a medical research trainee at the Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans in 1962 and the foundation of the Sixth Ward Community Improvement Association, later the Treme Community Improvement Association. He also discusses his work in the areas of housing and rent control; community organizing with African American oyster fishermen in Plaquemines Parish; the Black Panther Party in New Orleans; his training with the Midwest Training Academy in Chicago; the foundation, growth, and future of The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond; and Chisom's work with New Orleans Mayor Ernest "Dutch" Morial. Throughout the interviews, Chisom provides his views on effective community organizing and his experiences working on the national level.

Dates

  • Other: 2009

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Extent

4.00 items

Language of Materials

English

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Ron Chisom interviews
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English

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Part of the Amistad Research Center Repository

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