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Edward Chambers, Early Leader in Community Organizing, Dies at 85

Edward Chambers, Early Leader in Community Organizing, Dies at 85

Publication Date: 
Friday, May 1, 2015

Edward T. Chambers, a lapsed seminarian who succeeded Saul Alinsky as leader of Mr. Alinsky’s social justice foundation, advancing his radical agenda of community organizing and grounding its progressive objectives in the Gospels, died on April 26 at a nursing home near his home in Drimoleague, Ireland. He was 85.