“If That’s Snobbery, Then I’m a Snob”: The Successful Fight to Create a Black, Middle-Class Enclave in Chatham, 1955–1960

Aaron Schutz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published books on community organizing and theories of democratic engagement including Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing (with Marie Sandy), People Power: The Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky (with Mike Miller), and Empowerment: A Primer. His current work focuses on the history of neighborhood-based community organizing in the Alinsky tradition, community organizing in hypersegregated white suburbs, and the relationship between organizing and civil resistance.