Edward T. Chambers
American community organizer
About Edward T. Chambers
Lived 1930 – 2015 (aged 85). Edward T. Chambers was an American community organizer.
Edward Thomas Chambers (April 2, 1930 – April 26, 2015) was the executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation from 1972 to 2009, a community organizing group founded by Saul Alinsky. Chambers was born in Clarion, Iowa to Thomas Chambers and Hazella Downing. ). A memorial article in The New Yorker called him "community organizing’s unforgiving hero."
He died of heart failure in Drimoleague, Ireland in 2015.
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Who was Edward T. Chambers?
American community organizer
When was Edward T. Chambers born?
Edward T. Chambers was born on 2 April 1930 in Clarion.
When did Edward T. Chambers die?
Edward T. Chambers died on 26 April 2015 in Drimoleague.
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Edward T. Chambers was a community organizer.
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Edward T. Chambers was American.
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