Michael Tabor - Challenging Segregation - 03-23-2018 - Final
Channel: Washington, D.C. Lessons of the Sixties
Date: 2020-01-30

Michael Tabor has been an activist and organizer in the Washington, D.C. area for more than five decades on a wide array of issues, including free speech rights, opposition to the Vietnam War, for racial justice and for sustainable agriculture. In this interview, he discusses his civil rights and anti-Vietnam War organizing in the Maryland suburbs, including active involvement in local Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapters, his activism while working at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), his work with the Jewish Renewal Movement, and the beginnings of his long-term ownership of Licking Creek Bend Farm and its focus on sustainably grown produce.