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...Shelton had worked for the Eastern Farmworkers Association, a Long Island community and labor group, throughout high school and college, taking a year off before enrolling at Harvard to found the Eastern Service Workers Association in Boston. He served as educational, director, until 1979, when he left the group...
...Horace Mann, Shelton was widely respected for his intellectual talents and leadetship, though classmates said he shifted drastically in his political beliefs...
Fisher said Shelton's political beliefs became increasingly radical by the time he graduated and that he said he worked for a semi-secrete-organization devoted to violent Communist revolution...
Others expressed skepticism over this description of Shelton's involvement, but he apparently did break with the Farmworkers Organization when he married another member of the group and began to disagree with the group's political aims...
Redlich emphasized Shelton's broad social concerns rather than his particular political attachments. "He nevear got into that abstract stuff." Redlich said...