A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s / Robert B. McKersie ; with a foreword by James R. Ralph Jr.
Publication Info.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Starting an academic career -- The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- Tim Black and the Motorola campaign -- 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.
