 Cloward and Piven were more concerned with reaching community groups with this work than with academia, and the article helped to serve a link between the two.In May 1966, George Wiley, a nationally recognized chemist, the second African American on the faculty of Syracuse University, and former associate director for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and two of his associates from CORE set up the Poverty Rights Action Center (PRAC) in a two-story row house in Washington, D.C.The PRAC was intended to become a permanent headquarters for coordinating efforts of present poor people's organizations.