ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an organization called the 1991 Sacramento Redistricting Project. The organization was formed in early 1991 to enhance the prospects for black political representation in the Sacramento area. A long, rich, and contextually dense institutional and community history preceded the Summit and the Redistricting Project. This is particularly true on the issue of districting and redistricting for the Sacramento City Council. The 1991 Redistricting Project enables people to uncover the kinds of empirical circumstances on which much of social movement theory rests. The chapter describes the link between institutionalization and racial or social memory and the use of black narrative in black spaces to develop the content of racial memory and to direct the actions of institutions. The Summit on African-American Concerns was convened in late 1990 by the Black Sacramento Christian Club Organizers (BSCCO), 100 Black Men, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Sacramento Urban League.
