Saul Alinsky
American community organizer and writer (1909-1972) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 63
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.
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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.
