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Posted on 06/23/2026 7:20:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A: Political theorist Saul Alinsky (third from right) was known for his labor organizing in Back of the Yards, then a predominately white, working-class area abutting Chicago’s great stockyards. Alinsky's unique approach influenced Obama's own community work.
Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, UPWA-CIO strike. Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, Back of the Yards Newspapers Collection, Box 45, Photo 1.21.
C: Known as the “Mother of Environmental Justice,” Hazel Johnson mobilized her neighbors in the Altgeld Gardens public housing project to demand accountability for the disproportionate health effects faced by low-income, mostly Black people on Chicago’s far South Side. She both secured national legislative wins and united small, isolated communities of color into the broader environmental movement. Johnson was a mentor to Barack Obama during his time organizing in the Altgeld Gardens community.
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D: Residents’ Journal was written by and for residents of Chicago's public housing. In this article from February 2000, three candidates in the First Congressional District Democratic primary, including Barack Obama, share their positions on public housing reform.
Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, Residents’ Journal Records.
E: Barack Obama was the inaugural executive director of the Developing Communities Project, a religiously-affiliated organization devoted improving material conditions for residents of Greater Roseland. He is pictured here at an event with fellow organizers Gwen Mackel Rice and Mamie Thomas.
Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection for Afro-American History and Literature, Developing Communities Project Records, Box 156, Photo 3018.
F: Articles of Incorporation for the Developing Communities Project, 1986. Barack Obama was the organization's first executive director.
Portions of this document have been redacted to protect personal privacy in accordance with archival access and ethical standards.[???] The original document remains unaltered and is preserved in the Developing Communities Project Archives at the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection.
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“Alinsky’s unique approach influenced Obama’s own community work.”
It sure did. And still does.
I’m looking for Cankles’ secret server. Anybody see it?
I hope this website is not anything official because Obama does not have a President LIBRARY. A presidential library is where previous presidents have their presidential documents stored. Obama, on the other hand, has his documents hidden from the public somewhere else and only Digital copies are in his presidentialCENTER. We all know that anything digitized can be changed by appropriate software.
According to Smithsonian Magazine Hussein’s “accomplishments” were:
2009 bailout of the auto industry,
2010 Affordable Care Act,
2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and
Paris Agreement on climate in 2015.
The Chicago Public Library has a “branch” there.
Most of you Laughed at us “Birthers” back when. Now everyone is up in arms over some STUPID Presidential Library.
He NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN president!
‘Homey da Clown’ on da Right!
All anyone cares about is what percent of the employees are trans.
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