Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois - June 12, 1972, Carmel, California) is generally considered the father of community organizing. Wikipedia
By bringing together minority, poor and working-class urban citizens in territorially-based organizations, Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundation strove to articulate and implement a democratic vision of the American city. repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9989649/
...from Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories ... courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/support/Assignments/alinsky.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Saul Alinsky. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
Saul Alinsky is, along with Thomas Paine , Henry George , and Dorothy Day , one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left. www.progress.org/2003/alinsky2.htm
