Saul Alinsky

(1909-1972)

American radical community activist

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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 and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety. Responding to the impatience of a New Left generation of activists in the 1960s, in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971) Alinsky defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice.

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Born	Saul David Alinsky 30 January 1909 Chicago, Illinois
Died	12 June 1972 (aged 63) Carmel, California
Zodiac	Aquarius
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Helene Simon 1909-1947 · · m. 1932 info edit

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Jean Graham 1916-2003 · · m. 1952; div. 1969 info edit

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Irene McGinnis - · · m. 1971 info edit

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Katherine info 1st child with Helene Simon Female · - · Celebrity Baby

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