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Interviewer
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
8-5-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1941
Description
Mr. Ron Chisholm was a community organizer and co-founder of The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. Born in New Orleans in 1941, his career began not in activism but in the medical field, working as a custodial worker and later a medical research technician at Charity Hospital and LSU Medical School. His direct experiences with institutional racism in these settings spurred his transition into community organizing in the 1970s. His expertise was built through decades of on-the-ground, "trial and error" work, including housing advocacy, tenant organizing, political campaigning, and being the chief plaintiff in a landmark voting rights case, Chisholm v. State of Louisiana. This practical experience informed his development of a sophisticated, systemic analysis of racism, which became the foundation for the nationallyrecognized anti-racism training provided by The People's Institute.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
1970s to present
Duration
1:12:21
File Size
1.19 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Chisom, Ron and Delgadillo, Rafael, "Oral History Interview with Ron Chisom" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 19.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/19
Comments
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