Mitch Snyder – the Greatest American Advocate for Homelessness

Mitch Snyder – the Greatest American Advocate for Homelessness
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Mitch Snyder – the Greatest American Advocate for Homelessness
Mitch Snyder is the most memorable, the tireless advocate of homelessness in American history of human rights. His foundation CCNV, The Community for Creative Non-Violence, is known to be the most significant and most celebrated shelter across America. Snyder became a part of CCNV in 1973 and died in 1990, completing his 17 years socially influential, valuable and controversial career for homeless people. The country still holds Mitch Snyder as the most remarkable activist for homeless people by the continuing legacy at the foundation.
Mitch Snyder was born on August 14, 1943, in Brooklyn to a family of non-believers. When he got nine years old, his father fell in love with another woman and abandoned his family for her. Consequently, Mitch and Beatrice, the mother, underwent a financial crisis leading a semi-poor life. The event and fight with life without a father told upon Mitch’s psyche, he left studies and joined a street gang. As a result, the police arrested him many times by the next few years (DiBlasio & Belcher, 2013). After that, he had to join a reformatory school, which left within the year to head to Brooklyn again for labour and night schooling.
      As a teenager, he began to settle himself around. He fell in love with Ellen Kleiman and married her resulting in two sons. He became a vacuum cleaner seller visiting home-to-home talking to others for a living (DiBlasio & Belcher, 2013). However, he disliked the capitalist lifestyle, leaving his wife and two sons in 1969 for a new lifestyle.
In 1970, he turned out guilty of a car-stealing in Las Vegas, which he always considered an innocent crime. He began his religious studies in prison while sparing time for gaming. Through religious classes in jail, he learnt the value of protest, social justice and devotion to a purpose. The court set him at large in 1972 (DiBlasio & Belcher, 2013). A refined Mitch tried to reconcile with his family but in vain. After that, he set off to Washington, where he joined CCNV in 1973, a community working for social justice, anti-violence and spread of religious lifestyle. His jail life had already fueled his passion for protest, which found an outlet as an outcry for homelessness (DiBlasio & Belcher, 2013). In the wake of the ending Vietnam War, the homelessness became an endangering social challenge for Americans. Mitch at CCNV, felt the plight of war survivors and began a war against poverty.
CCNV supported protest through physically, sentimentally and mystically vital volunteers. Nevertheless, Mitch sprouted as a spirited, promised and inspirational member of the group, passing pamphlets, managing social and legal works and providing shelters. Although everybody else at CCNV had a similar passion, Mitch stood out due to his brilliant creativity, fascinating aptitude and dedication to the purpose! Moreover, when the Reagan presidency, at the end of the Cold War, marked histrionic decline in the shelter and social ...