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.
Material type: TextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780809332458Subject(s): McKersie, Robert B | African American civil rights workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography | Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s.DDC classification: 323.092 | B LOC classification: F548.9.N4 | M34 2013Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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