Office Files, 1966–1966

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Office Files, 1966–1966

1966

This series consists of a transcript of Hyman Bookbinder's opening statement in a debate with Saul Alinsky about the war on poverty. Bookbinder, Assistant Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, defends the program and presents a case for its expansion.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11673119

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Alinsky, Saul David, 1909-1972

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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, economists, 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) – ...