A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s /

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Hlavní autor: McKersie, Robert B.
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
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Obsah:
  • 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.