DAVE DENNIS CONNECTIONS
If you would like to engage Dave to speak or to train community leaders in organizing and facilitation skills, you may make inquiries by email, fax, telephone, or regular mail as follows:
Email: davedennisconnections@gmail.com
Fax: 843.771.0276
Telephone: 843.364.2951
843.327.9894
Mail:
DAVE DENNIS CONNECTIONS
106 Veranda Dr.
Summerville, SC 29485
Professional Experience
Business
Founder and CEO of DAVE DENNIS CONNECTIONS, Executive Director of Southern Initiative Algebra Project [Present]
Consultant to the Algebra Project, Inc. [Various periods from 1992-2010]
Positive Innovations, Inc. Founder and Director [1991-2003]
Project Founder/Director and CEO of the Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project, Inc. [1995-2004]
David J. Dennis Law Firm, sole practitioner, civil and criminal practice [1978-1991]
Cotton, Jones and Dennis: Partner in Law Firm [1973-1978]
Elie, Sobol, Strickler and Dennis: Partner in Law Firm [1971-1973]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
See first four items under Professional Experience Business[1991-Present]
Organized successful challenge to Louisiana Democratic Party structure. This represented the first time since reconstruction that there was a majority of African American delegates from the Louisiana Democratic Party to the Democratic National Convention and an African-American chairman of the delegation [1972]
Field Secretary, Southern Education Defense Fund for Racial Equality: Responsible for organizing and conducting voter registration workshops in the South [1965]
Southern Regional Program Director, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) [1964-1965
Co-Director with Robert Moses, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Co-directed the successful challenge to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 which resulted in members of MFDP (MIssissippi Freedom Democratic Party) being seated at Mississippi convention. One of the organizers of Mississippi Freedom Summer [1962-1965]
Field Secretary, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Mississippi and Louisiana [1960-1964]
Established the Ruleville Mississippi Quilting Cooperative. The first African American cooperative in the South, it was a Mississippi organization comprised of eighteen women from Ruleville, MS [1963]
Freedom Rider: Participated in the first freedom bus ride from Montgomery AL to Jackson MS [1961]
contact information
Sharing His History in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and Louisiana [1960-Present], Community Organizing, and Education.
Agent:
Nancy Ledford Dennis
843.364.2951
