Wesley C. Hogan is director of the Center for Documentary Studies as well as research professor at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Department of History at Duke University. She is the author of On the Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History. Paul Ortiz is director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and professor of history at the University of Florida. He is the author of the PEN Award-winning An African American and Latinx History of the United States.
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Contents Acknowledgments In the Activists' Kitchen: An Introduction - Wesley Hogan and Paul Ortiz Part I. Making the Common Good the Common Will: Social Movements and Political Organizing 1. Goodwyn and the Democratic Coalition of Texas - Max Krochmal 2. Without Dissent There Can Be No Democracy - Ernesto Cortes Jr. 3. The Larry Way - Jim Hightower 4. Calm Up: Dr. Goodwyn's Workshop - Donnel Baird 5. Goodwyn: Obama Volunteer - Faulkner Fox 6. Movement Culture in Durham, North Carolina - Gunther Peck 7. A Democrat for the Ages - Benj DeMott 8. Nell's Kitchen, Larry's War Room - Peter H. Wood 9. Goodwyn Taught Me How to Live in 2019 Two Decades Ago - Adam Lioz Part II. "The Point of the Entire Thing": Teaching Inside Democratic Relationships 10. Family Politics: Son of a Little D democrat - Wade Goodwyn 11. You Already Know Everything - Wendy Jacobs 12. 'Can I Buy You a Beer?' Goodwyn's America - Andrew Neather 13. Mentoring as Community-Building - Thelma Kithcart 14. Why Is Your Voice So Small? - Elise Goldwasser 15. From the Bottom of the Mud Hole - Charles C. Bolton 16. Goodwyn 101 - Scott Ellsworth 17. A History-Changing Partnership - William H. Chafe 18. Ask Unsanctioned Questions: Interviewing Activists - Wesley C. Hogan Part III. Challenge the Smug Orthodoxy: Democratic Money and Writing History 19. To Break the Hold of the Money Class: The Sub-Treasury Plan - Connie L. Lester 20. Unfulfilled Thirst - William Grieder 21. How Lawrence Goodwyn Gave Me My Life - Tim Tyson 22. Collective Self-Confidence: African American Women's Organizing in Tobacco Leaf Houses - Lane Windham 23. Imagination, Silence, and Movement Life - G. C. Waldrep 24. Reclaiming Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: A Challenge - Marsha J. Tyson Darling Epilogue - Wesley Hogan and Paul Ortiz List of Contributors Index
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