A Decisive Decade : An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s /

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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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Main Author: McKersie, Robert B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
McKersie, Robert B.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Illinois > Chicago > Biographies.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs americains > Illinois > Chicago > Biographies.
Civil rights workers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Civil rights movements > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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