People Power

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIn the Activists' Kitchen: An Introduction — Wesley Hogan and Paul OrtizPart I. Making the Common Good the Common Will: Social Movements and Political Organizing1. Goodwyn and the Democratic Coalition of Texas — Max Krochmal2. Without Dissent There Can Be No Democracy — Ernesto Cortés Jr. 3. The Larry Way — Jim Hightower4. Calm Up: Dr. Goodwyn's Workshop — Donnel Baird5. Goodwyn: Obama Volunteer — Faulkner Fox6. Movement Culture in Durham, North Carolina — Gunther Peck7. A Democrat for the Ages — Benj DeMott8. Nell's Kitchen, Larry's War Room — Peter H. Wood9. Goodwyn Taught Me How to Live in 2019 Two Decades Ago — Adam LiozPart II. "The Point of the Entire Thing": Teaching Inside Democratic Relationships 10. Family Politics: Son of a Little D democrat — Wade Goodwyn11. You Already Know Everything — Wendy Jacobs12. 'Can I Buy You a Beer?' Goodwyn's America — Andrew Neather13. Mentoring as Community-Building — Thelma Kithcart14. Why Is Your Voice So Small? — Elise Goldwasser15. From the Bottom of the Mud Hole — Charles C. Bolton16. Goodwyn 101 — Scott Ellsworth17. A History-Changing Partnership — William H. Chafe18. Ask Unsanctioned Questions: Interviewing Activists — Wesley C. HoganPart 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. Lester20. Unfulfilled Thirst — William Grieder21. How Lawrence Goodwyn Gave Me My Life — Tim Tyson22. Collective Self-Confidence: African American Women's Organizing in Tobacco Leaf Houses — Lane Windham23. Imagination, Silence, and Movement Life — G. C. Waldrep24. Reclaiming Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: A Challenge — Marsha J. Tyson DarlingEpilogue — Wesley Hogan and Paul OrtizList of ContributorsIndex