The Woodlawn Organization records, 1959-1973.

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 ...

United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

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Blackstone Rangers.

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Greater Woodlawn Pastors' Alliance (Chicago, Ill.)

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

First Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.)

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Durham, N.C. church. From the description of Papers, 1871-1970. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38237441 ...

Model Cities-Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity

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Chicago Model Cities Program

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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 Citizen's Committee on Urban Renewal (Chicago, Ill.)

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Woodlawn Organization.

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The Woodlawn Organization (TWO), originally known as the Temporary Woodlawn Organization, is a coalition of neighborhood and religious formed to improve the quality of life in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago (Ill.). The organization was formalized in 1961. From the description of The Woodlawn Organization records, 1959-1973. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 718732924 ...