Born in Chicago, Saul Alinsky started working in the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood and became known as the father of grassroots organizing. His organizing approach would inspire political engagement for generations of citizens and political leaders like Barack Obama, Nicholas von Hoffman, and Jan Schakowsky. Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dr. Mark Santow, explores Alinsky’s attempts to grapple with one of the biggest moral dilemmas in his age and ours: race. Guiding Chicago Humanities through his latest book, Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race, Santow examines Alinsky’s comprehensive viewpoints on the politics of race, poverty, and social geography in the United States in the decades after World War II. Driving toward the next steps for progress, Santow explores the metropolitan color line and how it was constructed, contested, and maintained on the street and at the national level.

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