Alinsky dig cont.
1985: (“In the 1980‘s Obama lived with Sheila Miyoshi Jager (b: 1963).”) She earned a MA from Middlebury College (Vermont) in 1985
June: After answering want ad in NYT (ads were nationwide apparently, does anyone have access to old newspaper archives, would be nice to have an image), moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer as Director of Developing Communities Project (DCP) (formerly Gamaliel Foundation network (director Mike Kruglik is also connected to IAF) (formerly Contract Buyers League (formerly Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council in 1939 founded by Alinsky in Chicago))), a group of about 10 poor and small black churches that were part of the Calumet Community Religious Conference. Started in the rectory rooms of Holy Rosary parish, DCP received thousands of dollars from the (Catholic) Campaign for Human Development ((C)CHD). Bishop Norbert Gaughan, Bernardin’s strongman
Gerald “Jerry” Kellman (director of DCP, hired Obama, B: 1950, NYC, son of a Broadway producer received grant from Bill Ayers at the Woods Charitable Fund for the DCP. Woods Charitable Fund was founded by Frank Woods, a Lincoln, NE lawyer and co-founder of Western Union Independent Telephone Company (1903) soon to be Lincoln Telephone Company
Obama refers to Kellman as “Marty Kaufman” in Dreams from My Father.
“I went to the University of Wisconsin to major in student protesting,” Kellman says jokingly.
transferred to Reed College in Portland, Ore.
Wisconsin school’s proximity to Chicago provided a fateful opportunity to visit the Windy City. He stopped by in 1968 to experience the Democratic National Convention, but like many liberals who made the trip, Kellman left with a bad impression. ”Despite telling himself that he’d never go back, Kellman arrived in Chicago again in 1970, this time to stay for the long haul. He began an education in community organizing at a school run by Saul Alinsky, the late Chicagoan considered by many as the modern practice’s father. ”Alinsky was a radical, but his method of reaching the core of people’s needs and concerns through one-on-one interviews influenced many organizers, perhaps most notably Obama.
Kellman was Obama’s ”CHINAMAN”, according to Maraniss, a Chicago politics term for a mentor or teacher, possibly related to Confucius, the Chinese sage. SEE: Chinaman was an epithet for political mentors and backers in the politics of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in the 1900s. Although politically incorrect, the term is still in use today. An example of the use of the term appeared in the January 27, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times: “Before the age of political correctness, Munoz would have been called Torres’ chinaman, and in City Hall, that’s still what they’d call him, but if you prefer, you can stick with mentor or patron.”
https://www.jewishboston.com/jewish-mentor-jerry-kellman-gave-barack-obama-major-step-up-career-ladder-in-1985-in-chicago/
https://archive.is/8CjLB
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jul/26/obamas-early-near-miss/
https://archive.is/kq4VC
Names to dig:
Monsignor John Egan (founder of CHD)
Monsignor Marvin Mottet
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh (Notre Dame, friend of Egan)
Sister Simone Campbell
Holy Name Cathedral
Rev. William Stenzel
“one of his mentors at the time, Gregory Galluzzo, a former Jesuit priest and disciple of the organizer Saul Alinsky”
1988: May: Obama Leaves DCP
Summer: travels to Europe for first time and then to Kenya to meet his paternal family for the first time
After Alinsky: community organizing in Illinois. Springfield, Ill.: Sangamon State University. pp. 35–40. ISBN 0-9620873-3-5. "He has also been a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, an organizing institute working throughout the Midwest."
Late-year: Enters Harvard Law School (when did he apply?). Shortly after Obama proposes to Jager herself, she declines. At some point, while in law school, goes to LA for an 8 day Alinsky national training course on methods of organizing put on by the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) (at Mount St. Mary’s College founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet) paid for by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
The Catholic Roots of Obama’s Activism By JASON HOROWITZ MARCH 22, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/us/the-catholic-roots-of-obamas-activism.html?_r=0
https://archive.is/j3ugX