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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Table of Contents:
- 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.