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Series 24: Experiments in Housing Organization, 2019

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc024

Scope and Contents

The project documents experiments in housing organizing in 1970s Washington, D.C., focusing both on collective education projects organizers developed to educate themselves and others about the city’s housing crisis, and also on the creative neighborhood-based housing organizing with which many District residents were experimenting. It focused mostly on people involved with two groups: City-Wide Housing Coalition, which existed 1974-1980, and the Adams Morgan Organization, founded in 1972 and active into the 80s.

Dates

  • Creation: 2019

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Extent

From the Collection: 1.13 Terabytes

Repository Details

Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository

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