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0226826279 pdf A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race. Saul Alinsky is the most famouseven infamouscommunity organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations, which used the power of a neighborhoods residents to define and fight for their own interests. Across a long and controversial career spanning more than three decades, Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundation organized Eastern European meatpackers in Chicago, Kansas City, Buffalo, and St. Paul Mexican Americans in California and Arizona white middle-class homeowners on the edge of Chicagos South Side black ghetto and African Americans in Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, and other cities. Mark Santow focuses on Alinskys attempts to grapple with the biggest moral dilemma of his age: race. As Santow shows, Alinsky was one of the few activists of the period to take on issues of race on paper Read more