June 13, 2010
A History of Acorn, the Contentious Community-Organizing Group
Seeds of Change: The Story of Acorn, America’s Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
By John Atlas
Based on internal documents and numerous interviews with staff members and leaders, John Atlas, co-founder and president of the National Housing Institute, crafts a detailed history of Acorn from its beginnings when Wade Rathke, the organization’s founder and longtime leader, dropped out of Williams College to organize antiwar
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