Authors
by Aaron Schutz (Editor), Mike Miller (Editor)
Description
Saul Alinsky, according toTime 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:
- Fred Ross, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the Community Service Organization and National Farm Workers AssociationN
- Nicholas von Hoffman and the Woodlawn Organization-Tom Gaudette and the Northwest Community Organization
- Ed Chambers, Richard Harmon, and the Industrial Areas Foundation
- Shel Trapp, Gale Cincotta, and National People's Action-Heather Booth, Midwest Academy, and Citizen Action-Wade Rathke and ACORN
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.
