John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, died at 80…
Author: David J. Thompson
David J. Thompson is a world-renowned cooperative author, activist, and historian. He is author of Weavers of Dreams: Founders of the Modern Cooperative Movement and co-author of Cooperation Works and A Day in the Life of Cooperative America. He has written more than 200 articles about cooperatives. He is President of the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation and a member of the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
John Lewis: Chronology of his Co-op Chapter, Part I
“This was hands-on work, and I loved it.” —John Lewis John Lewis,…
Racial Redlining Fought by Postwar Interracial Co-ops
Levittown on Long Island in New York State is regarded as America’s…
Frederick Douglass and Co-ops
When Douglass Came to Rochdale, England, a Slave and Left a Free…