The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice

by Robert Fisher

Book Overview

With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Since 2002, ACORN has been dramatically expanding and raising its national profile; it has also been weathering controversy over its voter registration campaigns and an internal financial scandal. The twelve chapters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826516572
• ISBN13: 9780826516572
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"