Elizabeth Tornquist
Template:TOCnestleft Elizabeth Tornquist is a journalist and a founding board member of the Institute for Southern Studies.
Southern Student Organizing Committee
In the 1960s Tornquist was active with the Southern Student Organizing Committee. The SSOC was a student activist group that focused particularly on civil rights and the Vietnam War. Some of the founders included Sue Thrasher and Howard Romaine. As a member of the SSOC, Tornquist authored a number of articles, most notably "Over 30", advising the SSOC on recruitment techniques to use on people over 30 years of age.[1]
"Here Comes a Wind"
The Institute for Southern Studies' Southern Exposure issue Vol, 4 no 12 issue was entitled "Here Comes a Wind", and focused on labor organizing in the South. Contributors were Groesbeck Parham, Gwen Robinson, Jim Green, Sean Devereux, Carolyn Ashbaugh, Dan McCurry, Mike Krivosh, Jennifer Miller, Don Stillman, Melton McLaurin, Michael Thomason, James E. Youngdahl, Chip Hughes, Len Stanley, Clem Imhoff, Bill Becker, Bill Bishop, Tom Bethell, Elizabeth Tornquist, Ed McConville, Jim Grant, Fran Ansley, Sue Thrasher, David Ciscel, Tom Collins, Larry Rogins, Myles Horton, Higdon Roberts.
Institute for Southern Studies
Tornquist was listed as a board member for the Institute for Southern Studies.[2][3]
Founding Board members
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The Institute for Southern Studies was incorporated in the state of North Carolina on July 28, 1989. The founding members listed on the incorporation papers:
- Julian Bond President, from Atlanta, Georgia
- Peter Bourne, from Washington, D.C.
- N. Jerold Cohen, from Atlanta, Georgia
- John Lewis, from Atlanta, Georgia
- Marcus Raskin, from Washington, D.C.
- Howard Romaine, from New Iberia, Louisiana
- Robert Sherrill, from Washington, D.C.
- Sue Thrasher Secretary, from Atlanta, Georgia
- Elizabeth Tornquist, from Durham, North Carolina
References
- ↑ "Second Wave Feminism in the American South, 1965-1980", Katarina Keane, Ph.D., 2009 (see p. 91-92, incl. footnotes)
- ↑ Heritage Foundation "Institute for Policy Studies," April 19, 1977
- ↑ Institute for Southern Studies "Election 2008: What does it mean for the South?," November 5, 2008