Community organizer
Time: Jun, 1985
Place: Chicago, U.S.
Details: Two years after graduating from Columbia, Obama was back in Chicago when he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project, a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago's South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.
‹ Earlier in historyThe BlameThursday May 30, 1985 Later in history ›UEFA banned English clubs for "...An indeterminate period of time"Saturday Jun 1, 1985
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