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Beckwith (David) papers

Formal title:: David Beckwith papers
Extent:: 30.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1946-2011 (bulk 1980-1999)
Abstract:: The David Beckwith papers (1946-2011) is a significant collection of organizational records, correspondence, publications, training and funding materials relating to community development and organizing on both the local and national levels. Most of the material dates from 1980 to 1999 and represents the work of a wide range of community organizations, advocacy-based coalitions, governmental agencies and private organizations devoted to fulfilling social needs such as housing, transportation and education. The Papers also include a small but noteworthy collection of counter-culture newspapers from the mid-1960s and early 1970s.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2010.010

Chinn (Susan) papers

Formal title:: Susan Chinn papers
Extent:: 0.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1973-1981
Abstract:: Documents collected and used by Susan Chinn during her time as an employee of Massachusetts Fair Share whose function is grass-roots community organizing for low and moderate income people for the state of Massachusetts.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2015.017

Formal title:: Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Extent:: 1 linear_foot
Date range:: 2007-2011
Abstract:: The Community Organizer Genealogy Project was a special project of Center for Community Change to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks. They conducted oral history interviews with 100 individuals and collected biographical data on community organizers throughout the United States from 2008-2010.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2015.016

Formal title:: French American Charitable Trust (FACT) records
Extent:: 40 linear feet
Date range:: 1986-2011
Abstract:: The French American Charitable Trust was founded in 1990 by the Feeney family, a family with roots in France and the United States, to address fundamental inequalities and injustices in society. Their mission was to help develop and sustain networks of community-based groups in the United States and France that educate, organize, and empower people to actively participate in developing public policies that directly affect their lives. They spent all of the money in the endowment between 1990 and 2012 and closed the foundation in 2012.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2012.021

Formal title:: Kenneth A. Galdston papers
Extent:: 27.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1951-2012
Abstract:: The materials collected and partly organized by Kenneth A. Galdston consist of literature on community organizing, meeting notes, periodicals, class notes from Brown, clippings and supplementary material.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2011.002

Formal title:: Scott Molloy social and political materials collection
Extent:: 6 cubic feet
Date range:: 1947-1991
Abstract:: Political materials collected by Rhode Island College alumnus Scott Molloy. Includes letters, leaflets, newsletters, newspapers, and other printed materials created by various political groups.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0024

Formal title:: Alternative and Underground Press collection
Extent:: 168 cubic feet.
Date range:: 1916-2019 (bulk 1960-1998)
Abstract:: Publications from social and political groups relating to political controversies, extremism, and youth counter-culture.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0037

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