The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North Finley Mary Lou
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North Finley Mary Lou Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the…
Specifikacia The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North Finley Mary Lou
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North Finley Mary Lou
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. The open housing demonstrations they organized eventually resulted in a controversial agreement with Mayor Richard J. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) to form the Chicago Freedom Movement.
Daley and other city leaders, the fallout of which has historically led some to conclude that the movement was largely ineffective.In this important volume, an eminent team of scholars and activists offer an alternative assessment of the Chicago Freedom Movement's impact on race relations and social justice, both in the city and