Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACORN has organized successful tenant's groups all over the state...
...eight days for the letter, and by the time it comes, they have lost the will to travel. Now rooted in Geneva, we are to assume for good, they move to a new apartment, buy some new furniture, and seemingly begin new lives. In place of songs, there is tenant organizing in their new apartment building. They decide to have a baby and end the film by flipping a coin to decide who will stay home with the child...
Albert at 65 has no desire for higher office. Born in an unpainted shack in McAlester, Okla., he was raised in nearby Bug Tussle (later renamed Flowery Mound), after his father abandoned coal mining to become a tenant farmer. As a student in a one-room schoolhouse, Albert developed a love of reading (chiefly history and biography). He used his $1,500 winnings as a champion high school orator to continue his education at the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship...
When John Marcy left high school he graduated from the civil rights movement to the student anti-war movement. When he graduated from Boston University he moved easily into Cambridge tenant organizing, being a renter in Cambridgeport himself. Now, at 25, he is one of this election's younger and more radical contenders...
...second major issue is rent control. Evans speaks for her slate in advocating full tenant control of the city's rent control board, and says that rent should be no more than 10 per cent of a person's income...