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===Family===

===Family===

While he was attending the University of Chicago, he met Helene Simon, his first wife.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kjLspnsZS4UC&pg=PA25 Encyclopedia of leadership: A-E, Volume 1]</ref>  They married in 1932, and remained married until her death in an accidental drowning in 1947.<ref>[http://infed.org/mobi/saul-alinsky-community-organizing-and-rules-for-radicals/ Saul Alinsky, community organizing and rules for radicals]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/09/04/page/36/article/mrs-alinsky-drowns-after-saving-2-girls/ Mrs. Alinsky Drowns After Saving 2 Girls], [[Chicago Tribune]], Sept. 4th, 1947</ref>  They had two children, Kathryn and David.<ref name=reformers>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1QMaAAAAYAAJ American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary], p.</ref>  In 1952, he married Jean Graham.  After his divorce from Graham in 1969,<ref name=reformers /> he married Irene McInnis in 1971.

While he was attending the University of Chicago, he met Helene Simon, his first wife.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kjLspnsZS4UC&pg=PA25 Encyclopedia of leadership: A-E, Volume 1]</ref>  They married in 1932, and remained married until her death in an accidental drowning in 1947.<ref>[http://infed.org/mobi/saul-alinsky-community-organizing-and-rules-for-radicals/ Saul Alinsky, community organizing and rules for radicals]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/09/04/page/36/article/mrs-alinsky-drowns-after-saving-2-girls/ Mrs. Alinsky Drowns After Saving 2 Girls], [[Chicago Tribune]], Sept. 4th, 1947</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/books/it-never-hurts-to-have-a-few-enemies.html?pagewanted=all

IT NEVER HURTS TO HAVE A FEW ENEMIES], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  They had two children, Kathryn and David.<ref name=reformers>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1QMaAAAAYAAJ American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary], p.</ref>  In 1952, he married Jean Graham.  After his divorce from Graham in 1969,<ref name=reformers /> he married Irene McInnis in 1971.

===Influence of University of Chicago===

===Influence of University of Chicago===

==Community Organizer==

==Community Organizer==

Alinsky's approach to community organizing stressed "self interest as the generating reality of life." This view was solidified by his experiences in the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) as an organizer in the style of labor union leaders [[Samuel Gompers]] and [[John L. Lewis]]. Alinsky produced notable results like the Back of the Yard and the Woodlawn organizations in Chicago, which led him to spend the next decade spreading his methods across the entire nation, "from Kansas City and Detroit to the barrios of Southern California."  The panic-stricken city council of Oakland, California, introduced a resolution banning him from the city.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/THEREISONLYONEFIGHTHillaryClintonThesisOnSaulALinsky92 Saul Alinsky & Rules for Radicals Ultimate Collection]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/05/03/page/31/article/oakland-split-on-presbytery-bid-to-alinsky Oakland Split on Presbytery Bid to Alinsky], [[Chicago Tribune]], May 3rd, 1966</ref>

Alinsky's approach to community organizing stressed "self interest as the generating reality of life." This view was solidified by his experiences in the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) as an organizer in the style of labor union leaders [[Samuel Gompers]] and [[John L. Lewis]]. Many of the CIO organizers that he worked with were card-carrying communists.<ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-26/features/8502020590_1_slum-criminologist-neighborhoods Organization Man], ''Saul Alinsky`s Legacy Is Alive, Well And Living In The Neighborhoods'', [[Chicago Tribune]], by P. David Finks</ref>

 

Alinsky produced notable results like the Back of the Yard and the Woodlawn organizations in Chicago, which led him to spend the next decade spreading his methods across the entire nation, "from Kansas City and Detroit to the barrios of Southern California."  The panic-stricken city council of Oakland, California, introduced a resolution banning him from the city.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/THEREISONLYONEFIGHTHillaryClintonThesisOnSaulALinsky92 Saul Alinsky & Rules for Radicals Ultimate Collection]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/05/03/page/31/article/oakland-split-on-presbytery-bid-to-alinsky Oakland Split on Presbytery Bid to Alinsky], [[Chicago Tribune]], May 3rd, 1966</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>

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>