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Title The Chicago Freedom Movement : Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activism in the north / edited by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith ; foreword by Clayborne Carson.

Publication Info. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
Series Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith -- Part I. Living the Chicago Freedom Movement -- In their own voices: the story of the movement as told by the participants -- Part II. Background and history -- Interpreting the Chicago Freedom Movement: the last fifty years / James R. Ralph Jr -- Toward the apex of civil rights activism: antecedents of the Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-1966 / Christopher Robert Reed -- Part III. The impact of the Chicago Freedom Movement -- The Chicago Freedom Movement and the federal fair housing act / Leonard S. Rubinowitz -- The leadership council for metropolitan open communities: Chicago and fair housing / Brian White -- The North Shore Summer Project: "We're gonna open up the whole North Shore" / Gail Schechter -- Tenant unions during the Chicago Freedom Movement: innovation and impact / Herman Jenkins -- The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending / Mary Lou Finley -- Martin Luther King's legacy in North Lawndale: the Dr. King Legacy Apartments and Memorial District / Kimberlie Jackson -- The movement didn't stop / Jesse L. Jackson Sr. -- Perspectives on the legacy of Jesse Jackson Sr. / Al Sharpton -- The rise of independent Black political power in Chicago / Don Rose -- Roots of the Environmental Justice Movement: a community mobilizes to end childhood lead poisoning / Sherrilynn J. Bevel -- Youth and nonviolence: then and now / Pam Smith -- Part IV. Stories from the Chicago Freedom Movement -- Music and the movement I: music and grassroots organizing / Jimmy Collier with Allegra Malone -- Music and the movement II: music for an urban movement / Gene Barge with Allegra Malone -- Women in the movement I: the women of SCLC-WSCP take action / Molly Martindale -- Women in the movement II: dorothy gautreaux / Hal Baron -- Labor and the Chicago Freedom Movement / Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, and Norman Hill -- Part V. Lessons learned and the unfinished work -- Nonviolence and the Chicago Freedom Movement / Bernard LaFayette Jr -- Movement success: the long view / Mary Lou Finley -- Epilogue: nonviolence remix and today's millennials / Jonathan Lewis.
Note Print version record.
Language English.
Subject King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (OCoLC)fst00040023
Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.
United States Local History.
Regions & Countries -- America.
History & Archaeology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Smith, Pam (Consultant), editor.
Ralph, James R. (James Richard), 1960- editor.
LaFayette, Bernard, Jr., editor.
Finley, Mary Lou, 1943- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Chicago Freedom Movement. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2016 (DLC) 2015047420
ISBN 9780813166513 (electronic bk.)
0813166519 (electronic bk.)
9780813166520 (electronic bk.)
0813166527 (electronic bk.)
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