In this Book
- People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
--Fred Ross, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the Community Service Organization and National Farm Workers Association
--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.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Preface: Why Is Alinsky Important Today?
- pp. xiii-xvi
- PART I: Introduction
- 1 Editors’ Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 2 Saul Alinsky and His Core Concepts
- pp. 17-42
- 3 What Is an Organizer? (1973)
- pp. 43-48
- PART II: Alinsky’s Colleagues
- 6 Questions and Answers (1959)
- pp. 68-73
- 7 Finding and Making Leaders (1963)
- pp. 74-86
- 10 Dolores Huerta and Gil Padilla
- pp. 114-123
- 11 Tom Gaudette: An Oral History
- pp. 124-142
- 12 Shel Trapp and Gale Cincotta
- pp. 143-162
- 15 An Introduction to Dick Harmon
- pp. 174-184
- 16 Making an Offer We Can’t Refuse (1973)
- pp. 185-194
- 21 Standing for the Whole (1990)
- pp. 239-244
- PART III: Different Directions
- 24 An Introduction to Wade Rathke and ACORN
- pp. 274-284
- 25 ACORN Community Organizing Model (1973)
- pp. 285-304
- PART IV: Concluding Commentaries
- 27 The State of Organizing
- pp. 311-325
- 28 Thinking beyond the Present
- pp. 326-338