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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Pacific Institute for Community Organizing
Oakland, CA
510 655-2801
Email: baumannpico@compuserve.com

Industrial Areas Foundation
Chicago, IL
312 245-9211

Campaign for Human Development
Washington, D.C.
202 541-3210

Citizen Action
Chicago, IL
312 427-2114

Organizing Training Center
San Francisco, CA
415 821-6180

National Training and Information Center
Chicago, IL
312 243-3035
Email: NTIC@DLS.NET

Direct Action and Research Training Center
Miami, FL
305 576-8020

The Gamaliel Foundation
Chicago, IL
312 357-2639
Email: gamalielus@aol.com

National Organizers Alliance
Washington, DC
202 543-6603
Email: noa@igc.org


BOOKS ABOUT SAUL ALINSKY

Let Them Call Me Rebel (Saul Alinsky & His Life) by Sanford D. Horwitt. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1989.

The Radical Vision of Saul Alinsky by P. David Finks (out-of-print)

Confront or Concede, the Alinsky Citizen-Action Organizations by Joan E. Lancourt (out of print)


BOOKS BY SAUL ALINSKY

Reveille for Radicals, Vintage Books (orig. printing 1946), new editions still in print.

John L. Lewis, An Unauthorized Biography, G. P. Putnam & Sons (out of print)

Rules for Radicals, A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Vintage Books (orig. published 1971), still in print


SUBJECT-RELATED

Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy, by Robert A. Slayton, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986

Crisis in Black and White by Charles E. Silberman, Vintage Books, 1964

Pride in the Jungle: Community and Everyday Life in Back of the Yards Chicago by Thomas J. Jablonsky, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Upon This Rock, The Miracles of the Black Church by Samuel G. Freedman, Harper Perennial, 1993 (chronicles East Brooklyn Congregations and one of their leaders, Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood)

Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics by Mary Beth Rogers, Univ. of North Texas Press, 1990 (chronicles Ernie Cortes and the Texas IAF organizations)

Organizing the Movement: The Roots and Growth of ACORN by Gary Delgado, Temple University Press, 1986


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