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Saul Alinsky was born in 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, to Lithuanian Jewish emigrant parents from Vilnius, Russian Empire.He was the only surviving son of Benjamin Alinsky and his second wife, Sarah Tannenbaum Alinsky, from Vilnius (now Lithuania).
He first worked as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky in Chicago for ten years from 1953 to 1963. [1] Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, and most notably, was a commentator on the CBS Point-Counterpoint segment for 60 Minutes, [2] from which Don Hewitt fired him in 1974. von Hoffman was also a columnist for The Huffington Post.
Alinsky received criticism for the methods and ideas he presented. Robert Pruger and Harry Specht observed that much of his instruction has only been effective in urban , low-income areas . [ 9 ] The authors also criticized Alinsky's broad statement that Rules for Radicals is a tool for organizing all low-income people.
His parents were Roman Catholic and his father a member of a railroad union, two critical influences on Tom Gaudette's later development as a community organizer. Gaudette served with distinction in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, surviving the famous raid on Ploesti, Romania , and by war's end earning the Distinguished Flying ...
The father of a 12-year-old Black boy who was briefly detained by police while taking out the trash outside his Lansing, Michigan, apartment building said Monday he does not accept an apology from ...
Justin Baldoni’s rise to fame wouldn’t be complete without a supportive family by his side. The actor gained popularity after playing Rafael Solano on Jane the Virgin from 2014 to 2019.
In Orange County, parents organized by Ross won a landmark lawsuit (Mendez v. Westminster School District) in 1947 that paved the way for the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision in 1954. Ross began organizing and obtained the interest of Saul Alinsky, a well-known organizer and head of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
Zendaya's parents are Claire Stoermer and Kazembe Coleman. Coleman's birth name was Samuel David Coleman, but he changed his name to Kazembe Ajamu as a tribute to his family roots in Nigeria.