Jean Graham Alinsky papers 1908-1984

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Jean Graham Alinsky papers 1908-1984

Memoirs, correspondence, legal and financial papers, memoranda, press releases and printed matter, relating to the career of Saul Alinsky as a radical and organizer of impoverished communities in the United States. Includes published writings and a few papers of Saul Alinsky.

6 manuscript boxes; (2.4 linear feet)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6661759

Hoover Institution Archives

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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) – ...

Alinsky, Jean Graham

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Biographical Note 1916 May 17 Born Jean La Verne Graham, New York 1938 B.A., Vassar College 1942 January Married Frederick Schick ...