A decisive decade an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s
The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex PoinsettCampaigns 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: m...
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Carbondale, Ill.
Southern Illinois University Press
2013
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McKersie, Robert B.
> McKersie, Robert B
> African American civil rights workers
> Biography
> African Americans
> Civil rights
> Civil rights movements
> History
> Civil rights workers
> Chicago (Ill.)
> Race relations
> Autobiografie
> Chicago, Ill.
> Bürgerrechtsbewegung
> Bürgerrecht
> Menschenrechtler
> Geschichte 1960-1970
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex PoinsettCampaigns 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. 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. 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxvi, 255 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780809332458 978-0-8093-3245-8 0809332450 0-8093-3245-0 9780809332441 978-0-8093-3244-1 0809332442 0-8093-3244-2 |