People Power
The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
Schultz, Aaron; Miller, Mike Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Date Written: 27/04/2015
Year Published: 2015
Pages: 368pp ISBN: 9780826520425
Resource Type: Book
Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people," someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American." People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States.
Abstract:
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Weaving classic texts with interviews and their own context-setting commentaries, the editors of "People Power" provide the first comprehensive history of Alinsky-based organizing in the tumultuous period from 1955 to 1980, when the key organizing groups in the United States took form. Many of these selections -- previously available only on untranscribed audiotapes or in difficult-to-read mimeograph or Xerox formats -- appear in print here for the first time.
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