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.

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Place / Publishing House:Carbondale : : Southern Illinois University Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages) :; illustrations
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505 0 |a 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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