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Alinsky, Saul David
Community organizer and sociologist; b. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 30 1909; d. Carmel, Calif., June 12, 1972. The son of Benjamin and Sarah (Tannenbaum) Alinsky, immigrant Orthodox Jews from Russia, Saul enrolled in the famous Chicago School of Pragmatic Sociology (1915–1950) at the University of Chicago in 1926.
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Upon graduation in 1930, Alinsky received a fellowship for graduate studies in criminology that led him to the Capone gang and Clifford Shaw's Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR). In 1931, he became a staff sociologist and parole classification officer for the Illinois State Penitentiary.
He returned to IJR in 1936 and was assigned by Shaw to the Chicago neighborhood known as "Back of the Yards" in 1938 to organize the community on delinquency issues (the classic description of Chicago's stockyard and immigrant life in the Back of the Yards is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle ).
In 1939, along with Joseph Meegan, Alinsky organized the "Back of the Yards