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David Reed discusses the murder of Yulanda Ward, the subsequent investigation, and the end of the City Wide Housing Coalition.

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David Reed discusses the murder of Yulanda Ward, the subsequent investigation, and the end of the City Wide Housing Coalition.

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Debra Frazier discusses her background, becoming an organizer, and becoming involved in public housing organizing within her community of Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg and beyond.

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Dominic Moulden discusses his background, organizing efforts working with tenants and black-owned small businesses in D.C., and the importance of political education in organizing.

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Esther Siegel discusses her background, the effort to create a limited-equity cooperative at her apartment complex, her work helping tenants across the city turn their buildings into cooperatives, and her work training co-op members nationally and internationally.

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Esther Siegel discusses her background, the effort to create a limited-equity cooperative at her apartment complex, her work helping tenants across the city turn their buildings into cooperatives, and her work training co-op members nationally and internationally.

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...