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A Decisive Decade : An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s /
In this personal story of a historic time in Chicago, the author follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. The author's participation as a white activist for Black rights offers a unique, firsthand viewpoint on the debates, boycotts, marches,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Decisive Decade : |b An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s / |c Robert B. McKersie ; with a foreword by James R. Ralph Jr. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The First Unitarian Church of Chicago : my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965 : marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation. | |
| 520 | |a In this personal story of a historic time in Chicago, the author follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. The author's participation as a white activist for Black rights offers a unique, firsthand viewpoint on the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would forever change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. Described within are the author's firsthand observations on events as they developed during his participation in historic occasions. | ||
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