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Adlai Stevenson
Using the funding from [[Marshall Field III]], Alinsky and his [[Industrial Areas Foundation]] utilized confrontational tactics and dramatic protests to help members gain bargaining status and a larger share of the local pie. He disavowed with increasing vigor any national issue strategy or ideological outlook. The weakness of his emphasis on the organizer as a tactician only and the granting of control to those organized was that racist goals could be chosen by the membership as a whole.<ref>Alan S. Miller, "Saul Alinsky: America's Radical Reactionary." ''Radical America'' 1987 21(1): 11-18. 0033-7617</ref>
Using the funding from [[Marshall Field III]], Alinsky and his [[Industrial Areas Foundation]] utilized confrontational tactics and dramatic protests to help members gain bargaining status and a larger share of the local pie. He disavowed with increasing vigor any national issue strategy or ideological outlook. The weakness of his emphasis on the organizer as a tactician only and the granting of control to those organized was that racist goals could be chosen by the membership as a whole.<ref>Alan S. Miller, "Saul Alinsky: America's Radical Reactionary." ''Radical America'' 1987 21(1): 11-18. 0033-7617</ref>
Alinsky's efforts were noticed by then governor [[Adlai Stevenson]], who said his goals: "most faithfully reflect our ideals of brotherhood, tolerance, charity and dignity of the individual."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KX3Qoyd51voC&pg=PA142 Reclaiming the Strike Zone: Do it American]</ref>
===Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council===
===Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council===