# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saul-alinsky
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:37.208Z

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name: "Saul Alinsky"
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description: "Saul David Alinsky 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. Responding to the impatience of a New Left generation of activists in the 1960s, Alinsky – in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971) – defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice."
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birthDate: "1909-01-30"
deathDate: "1972-06-12"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump