Oral Histories

Orell Fitzsimmons

   March 13, 2024

   

SEIU Nursing Home Organizer, Texas, 1986-1990; State Director and Organizing Director, SEIU Local 100 (union set up by ACORN), Texas, 1990-2020

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1. March 13, 2024 Interviewed by Cate Poe

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Orell Fitzsimmons’s first exposure to ACORN was a brief four month stint as a canvasser (Houston, TX, 1976), but he continued as a friend and ally to Houston ACORN. Involvement in a campaign to organize beer workers at the Astrodome brought him back to ACORN´s union organization, Local 100, where he worked from 1991-2000 as Organizing Director and State Director, bringing the ACORN organizing approach to labor organizing. He also served on the board of ACORN´s network of radio stations AM/FM and on ACORN´s National Executive Board.