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Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist.His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords, politicians, bankers and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety.
Students of Alinsky's such as Edward T. Chambers used Rules for Radicals to help form the IAF, the Queens Citizens Organization, [11] [12] and the Communities Organized for Public Service. Another student of Alinsky's, Ernesto Cortes, rose to prominence in the late 1970s in San Antonio while organizing Hispanic neighborhoods.
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.
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.
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The thesis was sympathetic to Alinsky's critiques of government antipoverty programs, but criticized Alinsky's methods as largely ineffective, all the while describing Alinsky's personality as appealing. [4] The thesis sought to fit Alinsky into a line of American social activists, including Eugene V. Debs, Martin Luther King Jr., and Walt ...
Saul Alinsky (agnostic [272] [273] [274]) – American community organizer and writer; noted for the book Rules for Radicals Hannah Arendt (agnostic [ 275 ] ) – German-American writer and political theorist