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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|American community organizer}}<br />
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| birth_date = September 15, 1935<br />
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'''Shel Trapp''' (1935 – October 18, 2010) was a community organizer based in [[Chicago]], co-founder of [[National People's Action]] (along with [[Gale Cincotta]]), and author of several books and pamphlets on [[community organizing]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Shel+Trapp&page=1|title=Amazon|website=Amazon.com|access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref> Trapp and Cincotta are widely credited with writing the [[Community Reinvestment Act]] (CRA). Trapp has also been responsible for training hundreds of community organizers throughout the United States through the [[National Training and Information Center]]. He retired in 2000 and died of pneumonia in October 2010.<ref>{{cite news <br />
|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/10/25/shel-trapp-1935-2010/<br />
|title=Shel Trapp, 1935–2010<br />
|newspaper=Chicago Tribune<br />
|date=October 25, 2010<br />
|access-date=2011-06-07<br />
|author=Margaret Ramirez<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*John Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael Bennett, and Fassil Demissie, '' The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis'' (Temple University Press, 2006). {{ISBN|1-59213-088-7}}<br />
*[[Rinku Sen]] and Kim Klein, ''Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy'' (Jossey-Bass, 2003). {{ISBN|0-7879-6533-2}}<br />
*[[David Walls (academic)|David Walls]], ''The Activist's Almanac: The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America'' (Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1993). {{ISBN|0-671-74634-0}}<br />
* Richard W. Wise, ''Redlined: A Novel of Boston,'' Brunswick House Press 2020) The battle against redlining in Jamaica Plain. 978-0972822336<br />
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==Pamphlets by Trapp==<br />
*''Basics of Organizing''. Chicago: National Training and Information Center, 1986.<br />
*''Blessed Be the Fighters: Reflections on Organizing . . . Collected Essays''. Chicago: National Training and Information Center, 1986.<br />
*''Dynamics of Organizing''. Chicago: National Training and Information Center, 1976.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110727152841/http://www.organizergenealogy.org/what-brought-me-community-organizing Video interview with Shel Trapp about his beginnings in organizing]}}<br />
*[http://www.npa-us.org NPA website]<br />
*[http://vimeo.com/37432918 Video interview with Shel Trapp on the origins of the "bank-in"]<br />
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