The Chicago Freedom Movement : Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North /

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Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christ...

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Otros Autores: Finley, Mary Lou, 1943- (Editor ), LaFayette, Bernard, Jr (Editor ), Ralph, James R. (James Richard), 1960- (Editor ), Smith, Pam (Consultant) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
Race relations.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Noirs americains > Droits > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Civil rights > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith
  • Part I. Living the Chicago Freedom Movement
  • In their own voices: the story of the movement as told by the participants
  • Part II. Background and history
  • Interpreting the Chicago Freedom Movement: the last fifty years / James R. Ralph Jr
  • Toward the apex of civil rights activism: antecedents of the Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-1966 / Christopher Robert Reed
  • Part III. The impact of the Chicago Freedom Movement
  • The Chicago Freedom Movement and the federal fair housing act / Leonard S. Rubinowitz
  • The leadership council for metropolitan open communities: Chicago and fair housing / Brian White
  • The North Shore Summer Project: "We're gonna open up the whole North Shore" / Gail Schechter
  • Tenant unions during the Chicago Freedom Movement: innovation and impact / Herman Jenkins
  • The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending / Mary Lou Finley
  • Martin Luther King's legacy in North Lawndale: the Dr. King Legacy Apartments and Memorial District / Kimberlie Jackson
  • The movement didn't stop / Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
  • Perspectives on the legacy of Jesse Jackson Sr. / Al Sharpton
  • The rise of independent Black political power in Chicago / Don Rose
  • Roots of the Environmental Justice Movement: a community mobilizes to end childhood lead poisoning / Sherrilynn J. Bevel
  • Youth and nonviolence: then and now / Pam Smith
  • Part IV. Stories from the Chicago Freedom Movement
  • Music and the movement I: music and grassroots organizing / Jimmy Collier with Allegra Malone
  • Music and the movement II: music for an urban movement / Gene Barge with Allegra Malone
  • Women in the movement I: the women of SCLC-WSCP take action / Molly Martindale
  • Women in the movement II: dorothy gautreaux / Hal Baron
  • Labor and the Chicago Freedom Movement / Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, and Norman Hill
  • Part V. Lessons learned and the unfinished work
  • Nonviolence and the Chicago Freedom Movement / Bernard LaFayette Jr
  • Movement success: the long view / Mary Lou Finley
  • Epilogue: nonviolence remix and today's millennials / Jonathan Lewis.

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