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For more than half a century, Fred Ross, Sr. educated, agitated and inspired people of all races and backgrounds to overcome fear and despair. Ross’s goal was “to help people do away with fear, to speak up and demand their rights, to push people to get out in front so that they could prove to themselves that they could do it.
Fred Ross (1910 – 1992) was an American community organizer. He founded the Community Service Organization (CSO) in 1948, which, with the support of the Industrial Areas Foundation, organized Mexican Americans in California.
In January, Janet Kelly contacted the Zinn Education Project to help her 7th and 8th grade students research Fred Ross Sr., a little known but influential grassroots organizer, for their History Day Project about the United Farmworkers’ Union.
The Fred Ross Project is committed to lifting up voices that have been historically excluded or marginalized due to discrimination and oppression, encouraging and supporting all that is inclusive of people from diverse backgrounds, and respecting and engaging with difference.
Fred Ross, Sr. America’s Social Arsonist. On March 29, 2016, labor journalist and author Gabriel Thompson released “America’s Social Activist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century,” the first biography of the extraordinary work of Fred Ross, Sr.
Fred Ross, Sr. was a trailblazer for social justice. His activism began in the late 1930s, when as a manager of one of California’s migratory worker camps, he organized Dust Bowl refugees, helping them form camp councils and achieve self-governance.
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THE FRED ROSS PROJECT is a documentary film and outreach campaign chronicling the life and teachings of Fred Ross Sr., who understood that inequality leads to injustice.
