Saul Alinsky/Industrial Areas Foundation records, 1930-1998.

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Saul Alinsky/Industrial Areas Foundation records, 1930-1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61193434

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, clippings, memoranda, minutes of meetings, speeches, articles, reprints, photographs, bulletins, notes, newsletters, manuscripts, books, galley proofs, films, scrapbooks, leaflets, flyers, posters, news releases, journals, constitutions, booklets, recordings, book reviews, agendas , financial statements, and programs. These materials include the records of Saul Alinsky as executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation as well as some of his published material.

30.68 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793679

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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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) – ...

Industrial Areas Foundation

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The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), founded in Chicago in 1940, trains citizens to organize their own communities. In the 1950s and 1960s, the IAF organized in Chicago, Los Angeles, Buffalo, and Rochester. Later, it developed national training institutes, fostering a network of community organizations. Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed the IAF's principles of community organization and citizen participation, expressed in his books Reveille for Radicals (1946) and ...