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- For the classical art campaigner, Fred Ross, see Art Renewal Center.
Fred Ross (1910 – 1992) was an American community organizer. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Community organizing is a process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together by an organizationto act in their common self-interest (at least as per the views He founded the Community Service Organization (CSO), which, with the support of the Industrial Areas Foundation, organized Mexican Americans in California. The Community Service Organization (1948- was an important California Latino Civil rights organization most famous for training Cesar Chavez. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF is a Chicago -based Community organizing network established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky. See also History of Mexican-Americans Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican ancestry California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The CSO gave a young Cesar Chavez his first training in organizing, which he would later use in founding the United Farm Workers. César Estrada Chávez ( March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) born in Yuma Arizona, was a Mexican-American farm worker Labor Template talkInfobox Union for usage --> Overview The United Farm Workers of America (UFW is a labor Ross also trained the young Dolores Huerta in community organizing. Dolores C Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO (UFW [1]
Ross was born in San Francisco. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1936, intending to become a school teacher, but was unable to find work during the Great Depression. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly In Education, a teacher is one who helps Students or pupils often in a School, as well as in a Family, religious or Instead, he managed a migrant labor camp near Bakersfield. The term migrant worker has different official meanings and connotations in different parts of the world the United Nations' definition is very broad essentially including anyone The experience led him to become an organizer.
He left the migrant camp to work with Japanese-American internees. Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and Internment of approximately 110000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing In work funded by the American Friends Service Committee, he sought to improve the conditions for and to effect the release of the internees. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC is a Religious Society of Friends ( Quaker) affiliated organization which provides Humanitarian relief After the war, he returned to the Southern California, where he worked with African-Americans and Mexican-Americans to fight school and housing segregation. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa
Ross was trained in community organizing by Saul Alinsky, who became his mentor. Saul David Alinsky ( January 30, 1909, Chicago Illinois - June 12, 1972, Carmel He founded the CSO in 1948.
Ross is the author of Conquering Goliath: Cesar Chavez at the Beginning (El Taller Graphico Press; 1989). ISBN 096252980X
Ross has a daughter, Diana.
External links
- A Trailblazing Organizer's Organizer, essay about Ross by Dick Meister
References
- ^ Editors (2007) "Dolores Huerta Biography." Dolores Huerta Foundation.
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