Summary Information

Title: ACORN Records
Inclusive Dates: 1963-2010

Creator:

• ACORN (Organization)

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

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
Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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.

Note:

This collection has been assigned Mss 1097.

Language: English, Spanish

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01097

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