Famous Figures

Her founding of Hull House as a residential community centre providing education, child care, and civic training to Chicago immigrants reflects a Community orientation in which collective organised care creates the conditions for individual development.

His organisation of the United Farm Workers through community structures rather than top-down leadership, and his use of collective action including the grape boycott, reflect a Community orientation applied to labour rights.

Her repeated return to bring others out, rather than securing only her own freedom, reflects a Community orientation in which liberation is understood as a collective project in which no individual's freedom is complete while others remain bound.

His ashram model, in which community members lived and worked collectively as a demonstration of the social values he was advocating politically, reflects a Community orientation in which the model community is itself the political argument.

Her anti-lynching campaigns, which explicitly organised community documentation and collective witness as a counter-strategy to state-sanctioned violence, reflect a Community orientation applied to racial justice advocacy.