Saul D. Alinsky Audio & Video

The common aim of all Mr. Alinsky's organizations is to mobilize the poor--mobilize them by whatever mean comes to hand (marches, sit-ins)--to demand decent housing conditions or whatever the local need may be.

Presenting "Agitator: A Tribute to Saul D. Alinsky," after Mr. Alinsky's death in 1972. Community organizer and social activist, discusses his work with advocacy for African-American labor rights, and his connection with the Mexican-American civil rights movement in California. Includes excerpts from interviews with him.

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.

In this feature documentary, American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky goes to war against the conditions that keep the poor in poverty. The film shows how he helped Black ghettos in the United States find an effective, non-violent method of fighting for their rights.