How did saul alinsky die
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Saul Alinsky
American activist and political theorist (1909–1972)
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| Born | Saul David Alinsky (1909-01-30)January 30, 1909 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 12, 1972(1972-06-12) (aged 63) Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Chicago(PhB) |
| Occupation(s) | Community organizer, writer, political activist |
| Years active | 1960s |
| Notable work | Rules for Radicals (1971) |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Pacem in Terris Award, 1969 |
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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
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This is a translation of an article originally written in March 2020 for publication in the April 2020 edition of the Marubeni Group Magazine, M-SPIRIT.
Washington D.C. Office General Manager, Marubeni America Corporation Yoichi Mineo
A young Barack Obama contributed his article “Why organize?” to a book titled “Post Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois.” In the article, he emphasizes the importance of organizing communities through traditional black churches. He writes that through community organizing he discovered the most satisfying contribution bringing communities together can make is helping working-class people. In 1969, Hillary Rodham (later Hilary Rodham Clinton) wrote her senior thesis “An analysis of the Alinsky model.” She finishes her thesis by writing “he has been feared - just as Martin Luther King has been feared, because each embraced the most radical of political faiths – democracy.” I would wager that there are few people on Earth who have not heard of President Obama and Secretary Clinton. However, far fewer people have heard of a
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Background and History of Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky was a native of Chicago, a vital manufacturing and transportation hub for the country in the 1930s. Scores of meat packing companies, warehouses, and train lines converged on the Second City and employed thousands of working-class white ethnics and African Americans, all escaping poverty, violent oppression, and exploitation from somewhere else. While Alinsky was not a devout practitioner of religion, his Jewish identity served as an essential reference point for his work – dealing with discrimination, being forced to live in slums, and being paid low wages – within a multiracial context.
Jewish and a native of Chicago during a time of increased labor militancy in the late 1930s and the 1940s, Alinsky came to adopt an organizing approach that seemed to counter broader tactics of the Communist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or the Universal Negro Improvement Associati
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