What did Barack Obama do as a community organizer? NT

[Eric J in MN]

NT

[FrenchieCat]

1. There's a lot out there......

here's an interesting one:

Obama's Community Roots

In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer.

more.....
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg

and here's another:

On the Streets of Chicago, a Candidate Comes of Age
As a community organizer, Obama was a pragmatic leader
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070826/3obama.htm

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here's an old one from 1993:



Vote of Confidence
A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape-and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama.

In the final, climactic buildup to November's general election, with George Bush gaining ground on Bill Clinton in Illinois and the once-unstoppable campaign of senatorial candidate Carol Moseley Braun embroiled in allegations about her mother's Medicare liability, one of the most important local stories managed to go virtually unreported: The number of new voter registrations before the election hit an all-time high. And the majority of those new voters were black. More than 150,000 new African-American voters were added to the city's rolls. In fact, for the first time in Chicago's history-including the heyday of Harold Washington-voter registrations in the 19 predominantly black wards outnumbered those in the city's 19 predominantly white ethnic wards, 676,000 to 526,000.
......more
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/

[grantcart]

2. he completely reshaped chicago's politics

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/