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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).
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.
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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Saul Alinsky had refused Egan's earlier request to organize the area, citing the lack of money and an organizer to carry out the work. Egan responded by raising money for the project from the archdiocese and sending Gaudette to Alinsky to interview for the position of organizer for West Town.
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.
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.