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There was no way Dallas was going to let the week-long advertisement opportunity be marred by unpredictable events. So, when the Alliance For Justice (the national coalition spearheaded by ACORN to plan the Tent City) applied for a permit for a downtown campsite, the city granted one at a park a full 18 miles away from the Republican Convention Center...
After a lawsuit and a series of tough direct actions by ACORN members, the city settled out of court for a campsite a mile from the Convention Center, beside the major highway used by delegates coming from the airport to Dallas. In addition, the city agreed to set up showers, toilets, and running water for the campers. Not quite the fancy Anatole Hotel, but bearable...
Dallas still contrived to separate all protest from the delegates. Delegates were asked not to walk to the convention center, but to take special buses because there was supposedly no way to guarantee safety. And the designated "special event area" for ACORN's Monday morning rally at the convention center was out of night of the delegates going in. Behind a grassy knoll, in back of large trees, surrounded by fences, and watched by police on horses, the ACORN rally seemed to take place in a cage. The only moment of police-protestor confrontation for ACORN members took place when...
After fighting with the city for a campsite, unsure of the direction the racial sparring would take, ACORN went ahead with plans to set up the Tent City, First, two massive gospel revival tents went up at the corner of the newly formed "Martin Luther King" and John J. Lewis streets. The Saturday afternoon before the Republicans came into town, ACORN held its own national convention...
Nancy Riggings, an older, quiet, poor Black woman from Fort Worth had a horrible Sunday. She had been unable to register a single voter in three hours because everyone along her turf had already registered. She was lost in an unfamiliar part of Dallas for two hours before an ACORN search party managed to rescue her from the heat...