The Chicago Freedom Movement : : Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activism in the north / / edited by Mary Lou Finley [and three others] ; foreword by Clayborne Carson.
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| Superior document: | Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lexington, Kentucky : : University Press of Kentucky,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (525 pages) |
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Table of 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.