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.
2013
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
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.
Imprint
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013.
Description
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: McKersie, Robert B. Decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013] xxvi, 255 pages
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English
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9780809332458 e-book
0809332442 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780809332441
0809332442 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780809332441
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