SOUTHERN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT RECORDS

1985-2000

 

East Tennessee State University

Archives of Appalachia

Box 70295

Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

 

E-mail: archives@etsu.edu

Telephone: (423) 439-4338

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Title:  Southern Empowerment Project Records                                                                                  

Date: 1985-2000

Collection:  Accession No. 450

Extent: 16 linear feet (16 boxes, includes 15 video tapes)

Creator: Southern Empowerment Project  

Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University

 

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

 

Provenance: The first donation of the records of the Southern Empowerment Project was received by the Archives of Appalachia on June 17, 1994.  The second donation was received May 13, 1997. They were donated by June Rostan, Southern Empowerment Project Director.  

 

Access: The records are open for research.

 

Language: English

 

Processing: Timothy Vasser completed processing and writing the finding aid for the Southern Empowerment Project Records in March 2006.

 

HISTORICAL NOTE

 

The Southern Empowerment Project (SEP) was created in September 1985 by the Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition and the Carolina Community Project. The program was designed to provide organizational training to interns, mainly from member organizations, and to organize local and regional interest groups. The organizational membership consisted of the Charlotte Organizing Project (CHOP), Citizens Organized to End Poverty in the Commonwealth (CO-EPIC), Community Farm Alliance (CFA), Just Organized Neighborhoods Area Headquarters (JONAH), Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC), North Carolina A. Phillip Randolph Institute (APRI), Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM), and Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians.

 

The SEP is a consortium of grassroots organizations that focuses on poverty, environmental issues, voter registration and participation, community organization, political empowerment, health care, job creation, education, class advancement, leadership development at the local level, organizational development, gender equality, women’s rights, civil rights, and neighborhood development. Four of the main objectives of the SEP are: to increase the power of low income Southerners to allow them to deal with issues affecting them; to strengthen local organizations through cooperation and resource sharing; to work cooperatively within states and across state lines on common issues; and to create institutional change and accountability within the region.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

 

The Southern Empowerment Project Records contain minutes of Board meetings, correspondence, intern information, committee minutes, training materials, and subject materials. Subjects include community organization, racial equality, land reform, tax reform, water and resources protection, economic development, and political empowerment. The records show how a grassroots organization functions, deals with adversity, raises funds, and recruits individuals to work within that organization.

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Campaign for Human Development

Center for Community Change

Charlotte Organizing Project

Citizens Organized to End Poverty in the Commonwealth

Commission on Religion in Appalachia

Community Farm Alliance

Community Organization–Southern States        

Equality–Southern States

Jewish Fund for Justice (Washington, D.C.)

Just Organized Neighborhoods Area Headquarters

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

Occupational Training–Southern States

Political Participation–Southern States

Poor–Southern States

Save Our Cumberland Mountains

Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians

Suffrage–Southern States

 

ARRANGEMENT

 

The records consist of four series:  Series I, Office Files, 1985-2000; Series II, Publications: Grassroots Organizations; Series III, Books; Series IV, Video Tapes.

  

 

SERIES DESCRIPTION

 

 

Series I, Office Files, 1985-2000, Boxes 1-12.

 

Series I includes subject files that are arranged in alphabetical order. File headings were changed only when original headings were not clear. These subject files help to explain the function and purpose of the Southern Empowerment Project. The subject files include the different organizations that were affiliated with SEP, the training courses they conducted, the proposals they submitted to various organizations, and information on how they recruited new organizations. Files include: correspondence, equipment purchases, long-range planning, member lists, and work-plan reports.

 

Series II, Publications: Grassroots Organizations, Boxes 12-14.

 

Series II includes pamphlets and training manuals SEP used to teach leadership, fundraising, and organizational development. Most of these manuals were used by students and trainers. Many of the publications are from grassroots organizations located in the eastern United States.

 

Series III, Books, Box 15.

 

Series III consists of books, such as, Getting To Work: An Organizer’s Guide to Transportation Equity; Fundraising for Social Change; How to Manage Conflict; and Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders. These books are listed in alphabetical order. They were used by trainers to teach techniques for organizing a grassroots organization. The SEP held training workshops throughout the southern United States.

 

Series IV, Video Tapes, Box 16.

 

Series IV consists of video tapes. Included are Southern Empowerment Project productions as well as commercial videos.

 

 

CONTAINER LIST

 

Series I, Office Files, 1985-2000, Box 1-12.

 

Box  1

 

1.      Action Education

2.      Administration, Workshops, Others

3.      Advanced Organizer Training, May 1, 1989-October 22, 1990

4.      Alumni Association

5.      Alumni Follow Up, 1987-1991

6.      Anniversary, Southern Empowerment Project 10th

7.      Annual Reports and News Articles

8.      Annual Reports and Others

9.      Appalachian Community Fund, 1987-1990

10.  Applicants Follow Up File

11.  Applications, 1997

12.  Applications, 2000

13.  A.S.A.P., Families USA

14.  Aspen Proposal

15.  Authorization Forms

16.  Black History

17.  Board of Directors, Agendas and Minutes, September 14, 1985-December 1988

18.  Board of Directors, Agendas and Minutes, 1989-March 1993

19.  Board of Directors, Agendas and Minutes, 1990-1994

20.  Board of Directors, List and Board Information (SEP Trainees)

21.  Board of Directors, Meeting Sites Visited, February 1985-April 21, 1990

22.  Board of Directors, Meetings and Correspondence, 1988-1989

23.  Board of Directors, Meetings and Correspondence, July 17, 1991-September 07, 1996

24.  Board of Directors, Reservation Agreement Forms

25.  Campaign for Human Development, Local

26.  Campaign for Human Development, National

27.  Campaign for Human Development, Pre-Application, 1986

28.  Campaign for Human Development, Proposal, 1986

29.  Campaign for Human Development, Proposal, 1988

30.  Campaign for Human Development, Proposal, 1990

 

Box  2

 

1.      Campaign for Human Development, Proposals, 1991-1993

2.      Campaign for Human Development, 1997

3.      Campaign for Human Development, Quarterly Reports, 1987-88

4.      Campaign for Human Development, Quarterly Reports, February 7, 1989-April 12, 1990   

5.      Catholic Committee of the South

6.      Center for Community Change, April 11, 1990

7.      Charge Card Information

8.      Charge Card Receipts

9.      Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

10.  Charlotte Meeting, April 20-21, 1990

11.  Coal Employment Project

12.  Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA)

13.  Commission on Religion in Appalachia, Submission, 1986, 1989-1992

14.  Commission on Religion in Appalachia, 1989, 1996-1998

15.  Commission on Religion in Appalachia, 1990-1991

16.  Committees, 1987-1988

17.  Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

18.  Computer Information

19.  Contracts, 1992-1993

20.  Contracts Re: Technical Supplies, Controls

21.  Cooperative Coordinating Committee

22.  Correspondence

23.  Correspondence, 1987

24.  Correspondence, 1988

25.  Correspondence, 1989

26.  Correspondence, 1990

27.  Correspondence, 1991

28.  Correspondence, 1992

29.  Correspondence, 1993

30.  Correspondence, Campaign for Human Development, 1987-1990

 

Box  3

 

1.      Correspondence, Funding

2.      Correspondence, Fundraising

3.      Correspondence, Incoming, 1987-1989

4.      Correspondence, Incoming, February 28, 1990-March 20, 1991

5.      Correspondence, Memos, January 9, 1987-December 31, 1993

6.      Correspondence, Other

7.      Correspondence, Outgoing

8.      Correspondence, Pre-1992 Member Group, 1987-1991 (A)

9.      Correspondence, Pre-1992 Member Group, 1987-1991 (B)

10.  Correspondence, SEP Member Group, 1989-1993

11.  Correspondence, Southern Tenant Farmers Union

12.  Correspondence, West Tennessee Office

13.  Curriculum, 1987-1988 (A)

14.  Curriculum, 1987-1988 (B)

15.  Curriculum Committee

16.  Curriculum Committee, August 14, 1985-April 6, 1990

17.  Curriculum Committee, 1994-1996

18.  Don Manning Miller

19.  Donors, 1989

20.  Early Meetings, September 14, 1985-August 19, 1987

21.  Economic Development for Women of North Carolina

22.  Equipment Purchased Receipts

23.  Evaluations, 1987-1988

24.  Evaluations, 1992

25.  Evaluations, 1993

26.  Evaluations, Fundraising Independence Skills Training (FIST), 1997

27.  Evaluations of 1991 Leadership Gathering, April 5-7, 1991

28.  Evangelical Lutheran Coalition for Mission in Appalachia (ELCMA), Workshop, 1992-1993

29.  Expense Statements of Interns

30.  Facilitation Workshop Materials

31.  Fair Tax

32.  Field Placements, March 15, 1987-November 20, 1990

 

Box  4

 

1.      Field Placements, May 28, 1992-September 24, 1992

2.      Field Placement, 1993, Agreement, Evaluations, Planning Forms

3.      Field Placement, 1993, Expenses, Stipends, and Receipts

4.      Field Placement, Correspondence, Evaluations, 1993 and 1994

5.      Field Placement, 1994

6.      Field Placement, 1996-1997

7.      Field Placement, 1998 

8.      Finance Committee

9.      Finance Committee, 1989

10.  Finance Committee, February 26, 1990-1994

11.  Financial Reports, 1987-1989

12.  FIST (Fundraising Independence Skills Training)

13.  FIST, 1997-1998

14.  Flyer Materials

15.  Forms (no longer in use), 1987-1988 and undated

16.  Forms, Fax

17.  Foundation Information

18.  Funder’s Tour, 1990

19.  Funder’s Tour, 1994

20.  Funding Proposals, 1988-1992 (A)

21.  Funding Proposals, 1988-1992 (B)

22.  Fundraising, (In-Kind Service)

23.  Fundraising, (Other Foundation)

24.  Fundraising Committee

25.  Fundraising Committee, (Board), 1993

26.  Fundraising Correspondence, March 24, 1987-October 30, 1990

27.  Fundraising Literature, 1997, Organizing

28.  Fundraising Material

29.  Fundraising Projects

30.  Fundraising Resources I

31.  Fundraising Resources II

32.  Fundraising School

33.  Fundraising Strategy

34.  Fundraising Strategy, Dead File, Archives

35.  Future Search

 

Box  5

 

1.      Future Search, 1998

2.      Global Ministries, United Methodist Church

3.      Grassroots Assembly

4.      Gulfside

5.      Historical Documents

6.      History Booklet

7.      Institute for Community Resources and Public Policy, 1991 and undated

8.      Intern Information, 1987

9.      Intern Information, June 19, 1990-October 4 1990

10.  Internal Revenue Service Tax Exemption (501-C-3), 1987-1988

11.  Internet Payments

12.  Interns Applications, 1991

13.  Interns List, Field Placement, 1992

14.  Interviews by SEP

15.  Jewish Fund for Justice, October 23, 1989-May 6, 1993

16.  Job Bank Circulars, March 11-May 14, 1994

17.  Johns Hopkins

18.  Kellogg Financial,1991; SEP Grant, 1995

19.  Kellogg Grant Proposal, 2nd, 1991-1992

20.  Kellogg Grant Reports, 1999

21.  Kellogg Proposal

22.  Leadership Conference

23.  Leadership Development

24.  Leadership Gathering, 1989, General Proposal

25.  Leadership Gathering, 1989 (A)

26.  Leadership Gathering, 1989 (B)

27.  Leadership Gathering, 1991 (A)

28.  Leadership Gathering, 1991 (B)

29.  Leadership Gathering, 1992

30.  Leadership Gathering, 1993

 

Box  6

 

1.      Leadership Gathering, 1995

2.      Leadership Gathering, 1997

3.      Leadership Gathering, 2000

4.      Leadership Gathering, #3

5.      Leadership Gathering, #3 Lesson Plans

6.      Leadership Gathering, Lesson Plans, 1989-1991

7.      Legislative Information

8.      Lesson Plans, 1987-1988

9.      Lesson Plans, 1989

10.  Lesson Plans, 1990

11.  Lesson Plans, 1991

12.  Lesson Plans, 1997

13.  Lesson Plans, extra

14.  Literature Clippings

15.  Logistics

16.  Logistics for 1996; Training, Evaluations, 1997

17.  Long Range Planning, 1986-1992

18.  Long Range Planning, 1993-1997

19.  Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Conference, 1998

20.  Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW)

21.  Mecklenberg Voters Coalition

22.  Media, Flyer, Newsletter

23.  Media and News Clippings, 1991-1994 and undated

24.  Media List

25.  Meeting Places (A)

26.  Meeting Places (B)

 

Box  7

 

1.      Member Group Bd. Information

2.      Member List

3.      Memo, Vacation, Sick Days, Comp Time, Growth-Leave

4.      Minister’s Retreat

5.      Miscellaneous, 1988-1991

6.      Miscellaneous Files

7.      Miscellaneous Memo from June

8.      National Organizers Alliance (NOA), 1998

9.      NOA File

10.  NOA Pension Plan

11.  NOA Steering Committee

12.  New Members

13.  News

14.  News Clippings

15.  Newspaper Articles

16.  Nominating Committee

17.  Nominating Committees, September 28, 1986; February 14, 1990-June 8, 1991

18.  (National Network of Grant writers) NNG, Subcontract, Fundraising Strategy

19.  Office Memos

20.  Opportunity Grant, General Proposal

21.  Organizer’s Survey

22.  Organizer Training, 1988-1989

23.  Organizer Training, 1990

24.  Organizer Training, 1991

25.  Organizer Training, 1992

26.  Organizer Training, 1995

27.  Organizer Training, 1998

28.  Organizing CO-OP FRED (Cooperative Funder Recruitment Education and Design)

29.  Organizing Culture Committee 

30.  Organizational Development Gathering, 1998 

31.  Organizations, Other

32.  Orientation Packet, 1993

33.  Overseas Development Network, 1988

 

Box  8

 

1.      People 1st Organization

2.      Personnel

3.      Personnel Committee, May 16, 1985-December 30, 1988

4.      Personnel Committee, February 6, 1989-October 27, 1990

5.      Personnel Committee, January 10, 1991-December 7, 1992

6.      Personnel Committee, February 19, 1993-November 24, 1993

7.      Personnel Policy

8.      Petty Cash Reimbursements

9.      Preliminary Discussions

10.  Presbyterian Hunger Program

11.  Printing Brochure

12.  Project Profile Questionnaire, 1986-1987

13.  Proposals, Submitted, February 12, 1988-September 4, 1988 

14.  Quarterly and Six Months Reports, 1991-1994

15.  Racism

16.  Racism Survey

17.  Recruiting

18.  Recruitment, 1991-1994

19.  Recruitment, 1993

20.  Recruitment, 1994

21.  Recruitment, Future Workshops, 1993

22.  Recruitment, Individual and Organization Name

23.  Recruitment Correspondence, Membership

24.  Recruitment Information, Subscription

25.  Recruitment Materials

 

Box  9

 

1.      Recruitment and Contracts, 1997

2.      Recruitment and Membership

3.      Recruitment and Membership Committee, June 21, 1989-August 25, 1992

4.      Recruitment and Membership Committee, 1991- 1997

5.      Reimbursements Receipts

6.      Rental Information

7.      Reports, 6 Months and Quarterly, 1991-1995

8.      Resource Materials

9.      ROC

10.  Save Our Cumberland Mountains

11.  Selection, June 17, 1988-June 2, 1993

12.  Selection, Orientation, 1991

13.  Selection Committee

14.  Selection Weekend, June 9-11, 1989

15.  Service Employees International Union, SEIU Training

16.  South Carolina United Action

17.  South Central Bell, AT&T

18.  Southern Empowerment Project (A)

19.  Southern Empowerment Project (B)

20.  Southern Empowerment Project, Board Meetings, Financial Statements 1998-2001

21.  Southern Empowerment Project Workshops

22.  Southern Human Rights Organizing Conference

23.  Southern Organizing Cooperative, Governing Body Gathering, 1993

 

Box  10

 

1.      Staff Meeting, June 6, 1991-March 19, 1997

2.      Staff Meeting, 1998

3.      Staff of Member Groups Retreat

4.      Staff Retreat with Center for Community Change

5.      Sub-Lease Agreement

6.      Surveys

7.      Tax Exempt Number Authorization Letter

8.      Tax Reform 

9.      Telephone Bills

10.  Third Force Magazine

11.  Timesheets

12.  Time Sheets, 1993-1996

13.  Time Sheets, 1997-2000

14.  Time Sheets, 2001

15.  Trainer Materials, Handouts 1993

16.  Trainer’s Evaluation Forms and Other Forms

17.  Training, Center for Third World Organizing, Community Action Training 

18.  Training, Maps

19.  Training, One Day

20.  Training, One Day, HUB

21.  Training, Organization

22.  Training, Organizing Materials (Manual and Others)

23.  Training, Raleigh/Durham HUB

24.  Training, Role Play and Exercises

25.  Training, SEP Orientation Materials

26.  Training Contacts, 1993

27.  Training Contacts, 1995

 

Box  11

 

1.      Training Contacts, 1996

2.      Training Facilities and Locations

3.      Training for Trainers, November 1988-November 1989

4.      Training Hand Outs (A)

5.      Training Hand Outs (B)

6.      Training Information

7.      Training Information,1999

8.      Training Materials

9.      Training Program, 1987

10.  Training Program, 1988

11.  Training Program, 1991-1992

12.  Training Program and Curriculum, 1993

13.  Training Programs, 1987-July 13, 1990

14.  Training Programs, 1987-1988

15.  Training Schedule and Information, Application

16.  Training Schedule and Information, Application Forms

17.  Training Schedule and Map Site, 1992

18.  Training Schedule and Map Site, 1993

19.  Training Schedule and Map Site, 1994

20.  Training Schedule, 1997

21.  Training School, Summer 2000

22.  Training School, 2001

23.  Training School, Southwest Virginia

24.  Travel and Other Expenses

25.  Twelve Months Reports, Others

26.  User Defined Reports

27.  Using Training for Leaders, November 1989

28.  Using Training for Leaders, November 1990

29.  Using Training for Leaders, February 1-3, 1991

30.  Using Training for Leaders, February 1993

31.  Using Training for Leaders, 1995

32.  Using Training in Organizing

33.  Using Training in Organizing, SEP

34.  Veatch Program, 1988-1993

35.  Voter Registration and Participation, Turnout and Labor

36.  Weekly Reports, July 1990, January 3-November 20, 1992

37.  Welfare Reform

 

Box  12

 

1.      Work Plans and Reports

2.      Worker’s Compensation

3.      Working Assets, Credit Card, April 16, 1990-October 3, 1992

4.      Youth Action

5.      Youth Empowerment Program, 1990

 

 

Series II, Publications: Grassroots Organizations, Box 12-14.

 

Box  12 (con’t)

 

6.  Catholic Bishops of America

Includes: “At Home in the Web of Life,” 1995.

 

7.  Center for Community Action
Includes: “12 Steps to College Admission”; “An Organic Model of Community Practice: Components of the Social Action Process” by Paul Castello and Mac Legerton; CFCA Mission Statement, Project List, and General Information, 2000.

 

8.  Center for Community Change
Includes: “Getting to Work: An Organizer’s Guide to Transportation Equity”; “Organizing around the Church,” issue 13 (Winter 1993); “What Does the Center for Community Change Do?”

 

9.  Children’s Issues
Includes:  ACES (The Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, Inc.) Information Booklet; “Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project,” July 1995.

 

10.  Community Issues
Includes:  “10th Anniversary Community Support Book,” Tennessee Hunger Coalition, 1990; “A Blueprint for Building Community,” Memphis, Tenn., Annual Report, 1997; “A Challenge for Change” by Shel Trapp; “Appalachian Community Fund, 5th Anniversary Journal” (1986-1991); “Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s” by Gary Delgado; “Biblical Integrity and People Power,” March 1990, by William E. Ramsden and John C. Montgomery; Campaign for Human Development: The Catholic Church Working to End Poverty and Injustice in America, Participant List, 1995; “CAT Community Action Training,” May 22-24, 1998; Charlotte, N.C. Organizing Project Annual Neighbor to Neighbor Celebration Program, December 6, 1991.

 

11.  HIV/AIDS Information
Includes: “AIDS in the Workplace: A Steward’s Manual”; American Red Cross Publications; “Catalog of HIV and AIDS Education and Prevention Materials.”

 

12. Labor and Organization (A)
Includes: “A Tennessean’s Guide to Grassroots Advocacy,” November 1989; “Basics of Organizing” by Shel Trapp; “Blessed Be The Fighters”; “Corporate Power and The American Dream”; “Dynamics of Organizing” by Shel Trapp; Grassroots Fundraising Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (February 1997); Grassroots Leadership Development Learning Program, May 23-27, 1999; “Merchandising Your Job Talents”; “Working Hard Is Not Enough,” January 2001.

 

13. Labor and Organization (B)
Includes:  Regional Council of Neighborhood Organizations quarterly magazine, “Organizing” (Fall 1992, Summer 1993, Summer 1994, Spring 1995); SEP Daily Journals Folder;  “Songs for Labor”; “Successful Internships” by Tracy I. Miller and Claudia Kuric; “The Big Lie and the Truth about Right-To-Work,” AFL-CIO, 1995; “The Drug-Free Workplace”; “What Do You Do For The Citizen Action Blues?”; “Who, Me, A Researcher? Yes, You!” by Shel Trapp, 1979.

 

14. Miscellaneous 
Includes: “Conducting Successful Focus Groups” by Judith Sharken Simon; “Flexible Loan Guarantee Program”; “Know Your Schools”; “Local Places, Global Connections: Libraries in the Digital Age”; “Motivating Yourself: Recharging the Human Battery” by Mac Anderson.

 

15. Nonprofit Organization Information
Includes: “E-Advocacy for Nonprofits: The Law of Lobbying and Election-Related Activity on the Net”; “Effective Internal Accounting Control for Nonprofit Organizations”; “Tennessee Nonprofit Salary and Benefit Survey,” June 1996.

 

16.  Political Issues
Includes:  Open Society Institute, “Building Open Societies, 1997 Report”; “Public Citizen’s Project Independence Action Kit: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act,” 1997; “The Listening Project: A National Dialogue On Progressive Movement-Building – Problems, Prospects, Potentials.”

 

17. Racial Issues
Includes: “Addressing the Imbalance of Power”; A. Philip Randolph Institute Annual Awards Banquet Program;  Applied Research Center Publication: Activism and Social Change; “Black Initiative and Government Responsibility”; “Confronting the NEW Racisms”; “The Best Ones to Speak It Are The Ones That Live It”; “The Delta Initiatives”; “The Right Unmasked,” vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 1996); “US and THEM.”

 

18.  Religion
Includes:  4th Annual Tennessee Statewide Baptist Student Union Gospel Music and Ministry Workshop, November 10-11, 1995; Amazing Facts, “Unisex in Jesus?” Inside Report, vol. 13, no.10 (October 1995); “Revitalizing Church and Community,” by David L. Ostendorf and Paul R. Peters.

 

19. State and Regional Issues and Information
Includes: “1998 Delegate Selection Procedures for Tennessee: 1998 Democratic Nat’l Convention, July 18-21”; “Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corporation 11th Annual Conference, October 23, 1992”; “Economic Transformation:  The Appalachian Challenge: A Report of the Working Group on the Appalachian Economic Crisis”; “Loudon County Living,” 1998-1999;  Rural Housing: Housing Assistance Council Booklet; “Tennessee State Government,” 1995-1996; “Tennessee Health Care Campaign”; “The State of the South,” 1998.

 

20. Women’s Issues
Includes: “Appalachian Women’s Journal,” vol. 10 (Winter 1998); “Picking Up The Pieces: Women In and Out of Work in the Rural South,” January 1986; “Powerful Communication Skills for Women.”

 

Box  13

 

Dismantling Racism Manual

Dismantling Racism Notebook

Grassroots Fundraising Training Manual

Organizational and Fundraising Training Program, 2001

SEP Community Organizing and Fundraising Training Notebook, 1998

SEP Community Organizing and Fundraising Training Manual, 2000

SEP Fundraising School Training for Trainers, 1998

SEP Lesson Plans Notebook

Southern Grassroots Leadership Development Learning Program Manual

Southern Grassroots Leadership Development Learning Program Notebook

 

Box  14

 

Empowering the South: A Bibliography for Community Organizers

Mississippi Empowerment Project, 1992

National Organizers Alliance, 2002

SEP Community Organizing and Fundraising Training, 1999

SEP Organization Manual

Southeastern Minority Trainer of Trainers Program, 1992

Southern Echo, Inc. and The Organizing COOP, 2000

Tennessee Hunger Coalition

Youth Program: Development and Strategic Planning Meeting, 2001

 

 

Series III, Books, Box 15.

Box  15

 

Bobo, Kim, Jackie Kendall, and Steve Max.  Organizing for Social Change:  A Manual for Activists in the 1990’s.  Washington:  Seven Locks Press, 1991.

 

Brown, Carla. Dynamic Communication Skills for Women.  Shawnee Mission, Kan.:

National Press Publications, 1989.

 

Collins, Chuck, Pam Rogers, with Joan P. Garner.  Robin Hood Was Right:  A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

 

Couto, Richard A.  Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round:  The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South.  Philadelphia, Penn.:  Temple Univ. Press, 1991.

 

Epstein, Robin. Citizen Power: Stories of America’s New Civic Spirit.  Lexington, Ky.:

      Democracy Resource Center, 1999.

 

Good Works:  A Guide to Careers in Social Change.  5th ed.  Ed. Donna Colvin.  New York:  Barricade Books, 1994.

 

Guillebeaux, A. Jack.  More is Caught Than Taught: Guide to Quality Child Care.

      Federation of Childcare Centers of Alabama, 1998.

 

Hendricks, William. How to Manage Conflict.  Shawnee Mission, Kan.: National Press

Publications, 1991.

 

Johnston, Kenneth. Beyond Bureaucracy: A Blueprint and Vision for Government That

Works.  Homewood, Ill.: Business One Irwin, 1993.

 

Kahn, Si. Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1982.

 

Klein, Kim.  Fundraising for Social Change.  3rd ed.  Berkley, Calif.: Chardon Press, 1996.

 

Klein, Kim.  Fundraising for Social Change.  3rd ed.  Inverness, Calif.:  Chardon Press, 1996.

 

Loeb, Marshall, and Stephen Kindel.  Leadership for Dummies.  Foster City, Calif.:  IDG Books Worldwide, 1999.

 

Maggio, Rosalie. How To Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs For

Every Situation.  Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

 

Mazel, Ella.  And Don’t Call Me A Racist: Treasury of Quotes on the Past, Present, and

Future of the Color Line in America.  Lexington, Mass: Argonaut Press, 1998.

 

Neutens, James J.  Discover Healthy Sexual Development.  Circle Pines, Minn.:  American Guidance Service, Inc., 1994.

 

Rothman, Iris. Getting To Work: An Organizer’s Guide To Transportation Equity.

Washington, D.C.: Center For Community Change, 1998.

 

Trombley, Nicole. Grantmakers Directory, 2000-2001: A Resource for Social Change

Funders and Grantseekers.  San Diego: The National Network of Grantmakers,

2001.

 

Zuicker, Melanie.  Making History: The First Ten Years of the KFTC.  Prestonburg,

 Ky.: Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, 1991.

 

 

Series IV, Video Tapes, Box 16.

 

Box  16

 

Organizational videos:

 

JONAH Slide Show “We Are Gentle Angry People” January 1984

SEP Awards Banquet 1994 (2)

SEP Banquet Honoring Lucille Thornburgh and Harold Middlebrook 12/09/94

SEP Focus Group, undated

SEP Graduation 1992

SEP Graduation 1996 and Alumni Meet Lucille Thornburgh

SEP MAZ, undated

SEP Ministerial Retreat, undated

 

Commercial videos:

 

At the River I Stand, undated

Forgotten Fires, undated, Independent Television Service

Forgotten Fires, undated

Freedom on My Mind, undated

Friendship’s Field, 1996, Rekab Tserrof, LC

From Racism to Pluralism, undated

Mississippi, America, 1995, PBS