Flashcards: Community organizing

The Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement (sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not widely used in the 1950s and 1960s) encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.

Nonviolent resistance (NVR or nonviolent action) is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence.

Khudai Khidmatgar (Pashto: خدايي خدمتگار‎) literally translates as the servants of God, represented a non-violent struggle against the British Empire by the Pashtuns (also known as Pathans, Pakhtuns or Afghans) of the North-West Frontier Province of British India (now in Pakistan).

A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.

Precarity is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare.

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Charles "Chuck" McDew (born June 23, 1938) is a lifelong activist for racial equality and a former activist of the Civil Rights Movement.

Curtis Sliwa (born March 26, 1954) is an American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, and radio talk show host and media personality.

Dexter Scott King (born January 30, 1961) is the second son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr.

Solidarity action (also known as secondary action, a boycott, or a sympathy strike) is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.

Leroy Looper (November 24, 1924 – September 11, 2011) was a community organizer and founder of several low-income housing facilities, programs for addiction recovery, and education initiatives in San Francisco.

Jewel Joseph Newman (March 3, 1921 – October 4, 2014) was an American Democratic politician and community organizer from the historically black Scotlandville neighborhood of his native Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Alice's Meadow is the name given to a small field in the Oxfordshire parish of Fencott and Murcott, England.

The Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) is a non-political, non-religious, non-governmental, not-for-profit, autonomous network of Youth Organizations and as such, a platform for collaboration, cooperation, joint action and collective endeavor between Youth Organizations in Nepal.

Brandworkers International is a non-profit advocacy organization for retail and food employees.

PICO National Network is a national network of progressive faith-based community organizations in the United States.

Melnea Agnes Cass (née Jones; June 16, 1896 – December 16, 1978) was an American community and civil rights activist.

The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a national community organizing network established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky, Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard James Sheil and businessman and founder of the Chicago Sun-Times, Marshall Field III.

Dr.Ruth Manorama (born on 30 May 1952) is widely known in India for her work in Dalit activism.

Eliza Atkins Gleason (December 15, 1909 – December 15, 2009) was the first African American to receive a doctorate in Library Science.

The Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia is composed of neighborhood associations from throughout the District of Columbia.

The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance 한인타운 노동연대 (KIWA, pronounced kee-wah), also known under its past name Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates 남가주 한인 노동 상담소, is a multi-ethnic immigrant worker civil rights membership organization based in the Los Angeles Koreatown area.

Lillie May Carroll Jackson (May 25, 1889 – July 5, 1975), pioneer civil rights activist, organizer of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP.

Lindis Percy (born 1941, Leeds) is a prominent peace activist in the United Kingdom and founding member and joint coordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases.

Men Against Rape and Discrimination or MARD/M.

The Peace Development Fund is a non-profit public foundation, based in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Margery Tabankin (born 1948) is an American progressive political activist.

Patricia Stephens Due (December 9, 1939 – February 7, 2012) was one of the leading African-American civil rights activists in the United States, especially in her home state of Florida.

Yonnette Fleming is a healer, an Urban Farmer and Community earth steward based in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Abu Talib is the founder of the Taqwa Community Farm and playground in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, New York City.

Gamaliel Foundation provides training and consultation and develops national strategy for its affiliated congregation-based community organizations.

The Developing Communities Project (DCP) is a faith based organization in Chicago, Illinois.

Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an American activist and first-born child of civil rights leader Rev.

The Committee for a Better New Orleans is a privately funded community organization and advocacy group in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.

Eric Mann (born December 4, 1942, Brooklyn, New York) is a civil rights, anti-war, labor, and environmental organizer whose career spans 50 years.

A Better Fort is a community organization with a mission to provide positive experiences that make a difference in the lives of individuals within Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Andrés Useche is an award-winning Colombian American writer, film director, graphic artist, singer-songwriter and activist.

Anas "Andy" Shallal (Arabic: أنس شلال) (born March 21, 1955 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American artist, activist and entrepreneur.

Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 3, 1990) was an African American woman from Montgomery, Alabama who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott through her fund-raising effort selling food at the boycott's mass meetings.

Stephen Gloucester (1802 – 1850) was among the primary organizers for the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia and the founder of The First African Presbyterian Church at Girard Avenue and 42nd Street in Philadelphia, which had 123 members by 1811.

Buycott.com is an Internet-based platform and smart-phone application that reads the Universal Product Codes (UPC) barcode on a product, and suggests whether a consumer should buy or avoid that product based on how well it aligns with the consumer's values and principles.

Mildred E. Gibbs (1850–1935) was an American educator, one of the first black American women (45th) to earn a physician's degree from an American medical school, and also one of the first to obtain a doctorate from an American school.

Open-source governance (also known as open politics) is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies of the open-source and open-content movements to democratic principles to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki document.

Queer Nation is an LGBTQ activist organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP.

Madeline Wheeler Murphy (October 24, 1922 – July 8, 2007) was a well known African-American community activist, civil rights champion, advocate for the poor, and panelist on the Baltimore television show Square Off.

The National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) is a network of approximately 75 community-based organizations led by Latin American and Caribbean immigrants.

National People’s Action (NPA) is a community organizing network of 29 grassroots organizations in 18 states working together to advance a racial and economic justice agenda for a new economy and true democracy.

Netroots Nation is a political convention for American progressive political activists, originally organized by readers and writers of Daily Kos, a liberal political blog.

The People's Library, also known as Fort Patti or the Occupy Wall Street Library (OWS Library), was a library founded in September 2011 by Occupy Wall Street protesters in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park located in the Financial District of New York City.

Restore the Fourth is an American 501(c)(4) nonprofit that seeks to strengthen the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and end programs that violate it.

Bayard Rustin (/ˈbaɪərd/; March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.

Claude Barnes (born 1952[?]) was an American civil rights leader for 40 years and a former professor, who was convicted in 2010 of embezzling the estate of his deceased neighbor.

Don't! Buy! Thai! was a campaign initiated in the early 1990s by child welfare advocate and author Andrew Vachss to boycott goods and services produced in Thailand until its government introduced formal and practical reforms to significantly curtail the prostitution of children.

E. J. Josey (January 20, 1924 – July 3, 2009) was an African-American activist and librarian.

Mary Fair Burks (July 31, 1914 – July 21, 1991) was an American educator, scholar, and civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama.

Sally Regenhard is an American activist who has become one of the leading voices for the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Edward Thomas Chambers (April 2, 1930 – April 26, 2015) was the executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation from 1972 to 2009, a community organizing group founded by Saul Alinsky.

The Invisible Party (Osynliga partiet) was a Swedish conceptual anti-capitalist media campaign masquerading as an "organization" with the purpose of connecting all anti-capitalist action, however small or without actual realization, to an "invisible" political party.