Industrial Areas Foundation Records, [ca. 1938-1995] (bulk 1951-1987)

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 ...

Chambers, Edward T.

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Harmon, Richard, 1991-

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Leber, Charles T. (Charles Tudor), 1924-

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Clapp, Gordon R. (Gordon Rufus), 1905-1963

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Gordon R. Clapp was the Chairman of the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1946 to 1954. From the description of Clapp, Gordon R. (Gordon Rufus), 1905-1963 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10573688 Government official. From the description of Papers, 1933-1963. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70958973 ...

Tjerandsen, Carl

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Community Service Organization

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McNeil, Larry, 1955-

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Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-1982

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Historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. From the guide to the Stringfellow Barr letters to Broadus Mitchell, 1952, 1954, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) University of Virginia professor; co-founder of St. John's College's "New Program" based on the classics; president of the Foundation for World Government. From the description of Papers of Stringfellow Barr [manuscript], 1915-1958. (...

Ross, Fred, 1910-

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Community and labor organizer, primarily in southern California. In the early 1940s he helped Japanese American internees obtain jobs and in 1946 went to work for the American Council on Race Relations in response to the racial tensions that had surfaced during the war. From 1947 to 1952 he worked for Saul Alinsky and the Industrial Areas Foundation. With their support Ross established the first Community Service Organization in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. In 1952 he met Cesar Chavez,...

Brazier, Arthur M.

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Bishop Arthur M. Brazier, pastor of the Chicago's Apostolic Church of God, was born in Chicago, Illinois, July 22, 1921. The son of Robert and Geneva Scott Brazier, Brazier grew up on Chicago's South Side during the Great Depression. Brazier attended Frances E. Willard and Stephen A. Douglas elementary schools; he dropped out of Phillips High School after a year of attendance to begin working. Drafted into a segregated United States Army in 1942, Brazier became a staff sergeant serving in India ...

Woodlawn Organization.

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