Editing Saul Alinsky (section)

===The Black Power movement===
In the mid-1960s, civil rights activists began to call for "[[Black power|Black Power]]"—for [[Stokely Carmichael]] a "call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=Stokely Carmichael |url=https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/stokely-carmichael |access-date=2 April 2023 |website=History.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Charles V. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eu2Ez9K8cQEC |title=Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America |last2=Ture |first2=Kwame |year=2011 |orig-date=First published |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-79527-4 |pages=44 |language=en}}</ref> Alinsky appeared not to be fazed. "I agree with the concept," he said in the fall of 1966. "We've always called it community power, and if the community is black, it's black power." But a year later he was relating, with evident satisfaction, that when he had asked Carmichael at a Detroit meeting to cite one concrete example of what he meant by Black Power, Carmichael had named the FIGHT project in Rochester. Carmichael, Alinsky suggested, should stop "going round yelling 'Black Power!'" and "really go down and organize."{{sfnp|Horwitt|1989|p=508}}

Alinsky had a sharper response to the more strident black nationalism of [[Maulana Karenga]], mistakenly identified in news reports as a board member of the newly formed [[Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization]]. In an angry letter to the Foundation's executive director, [[Lucius Walker]], Alinsky took exception to one of Karenga's "insights," that "blacks are a country and if you support America you are against my community." This Alinsky found "repugnant and nauseous." He and his associates would not only "plead guilty to supporting America" but would "gladly admit that we love our country." Horwitt notes that in 1968 "virtually no leftist dissenter – black or white – was using this kind of patriotic rhetoric."{{sfnp|Horwitt|1989|p=509}}

By 1970, Alinsky had conceded publicly that "all whites should get out of the black ghettos. It's a stage we have to go through."{{sfnp|Horwitt|1989|p=533}}