The Chicago Freedom Movement (eBook)

Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North

Mary Lou Finley, Bernard Lafayette, James R. Ralph, Pam Smith (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
528 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6651-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) to form the Chicago Freedom Movement. The open housing demonstrations they organized eventually resulted in a controversial agreement with Mayor Richard J. 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 across the nation. Building upon recent works, the contributors reexamine the movement and illuminate its lasting contributions in order to challenge conventional perceptions that have underestimated its impressive legacy.

Autor

Mary Lou Finley is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University Seattle and coauthor of Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Bernard LaFayette Jr., former Distinguished Senior Scholar in Residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, is the chair of the national board of SCLC, and author of In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma. James R. Ralph Jr. is Rehnquist Professor of American History and Culture at Middlebury College and author of Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement. Pam Smith is a public historian and longtime Chicago consultant who served as a senior press aide to Jesse Jackson in his 1988 presidential campaign and to Barack Obama in his primary campaign for the US Senate. She is Executive Director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago.

Inhalt

Interpreting the Chicago Freedom Movement: The Past Fifty Years
Toward the Apex of Civil Rights Activism: Antecedents of the Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-66
In Their Own Voices: The Story of the Movement in the Voices of its Participants
The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Federal Fair Housing Act
The Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities: Chicago and Fair Housing
The North Shore Summer Project: We're Gonna Open Up the Whole North Shore
Low-Income Tenant Unions during the Chicago Freedom Movement: Innovation and Impact
The Movement for Fair Lending and the Chicago Freedom Movement
The Martin Luther King Legacy in North Lawndale: The Dr. King Legacy Apartments and Historic District
The Movement Didn't Stop
Perspectives on the Legacy of Jesse Jackson, Sr.
Chicago Politics, the Chicago Freedom Movement, and the Nation
Roots of the Environmental Justice Movement: Community Mobilization to End Lead Poisoning
Youth and Nonviolence: Then and Now
Music and the Movement in Two Voices
Women in the Movement: Two Stories
Labor and the Chicago Freedom Movement
Nonviolence and the Chicago Freedom Movement
Movement Success: The Long View
The Movement is Now: A Message to Young People
A Note from the Next Generation: Reflections of the Eve of a Pilgrimage

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Vorwort: Clayborne Carson
• Zusatzinfo: 19 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 3 figures, 3 tables
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1960s US history • 1960s U.S. History • 20th century • African American History • black freedom movement • civil rights & liberties • civil rights and liberties • Civil Rights Movement • desegregation • Eyewitness Testimony • first-hand accounts • Martin Luther King jr. • Nonviolence • Peaceful protest • Primary Sources • protest movements • Racial Justice • Social Activism • youth activism
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6651-9 / 0813166519
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6651-3 / 9780813166513