Oral Histories

Norman Frasier

   March 13, 2024

   

Member/Leader, New York, starting in 1988; Co-Chair of ACORN Brownsville

Norman Frazier was a longtime ACORN activist in New York City. He was the Brownsville Brooklyn chapter leader. In this interview, he speaks about all of the actions and campaigns he worked on — city, state and national — and shares some chants and songs from those days. His outstanding memory is a national ACORN march/rally in Georgia during a Klu Klux Klan demonstration. He shared that he has been arrested 24 times.