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homeless organizing  

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  • The United States has a long history of organizing by and for those dispossessed by the nation's economic and political structures. In the decades between the Civil War and World War II, periodic recessions and depressions led to sporadic public demonstrations by those thrown out of work. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Homeless Organizing]

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