A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s /
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| Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2013]
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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.
A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s /