The Chicago Freedom Movement
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6650-6 (ISBN)
In this important volume, an eminent team of scholars and activists offer an alternative assessment of the Chicago Freedom Movement's impact on race relations and social justice, both in the city and across the nation. Building upon recent works, the contributors reexamine the movement and illuminate its lasting contributions in order to challenge conventional perceptions that have underestimated its impressive legacy.
Mary Lou Finley is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University Seattle, USA and coauthor of Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Bernard LaFayette Jr. is Distinguished Senior Scholar in Residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, USA the chair of the national board of SCLC, and the author of In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma. James R. Ralph Jr. is Rehnquist Professor of American History and Culture at Middlebury College, USA and author of Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement. Pam Smith is a longtime Chicago consultant who served as press secretary to Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign and Barack Obama's primary campaign for the US Senate. She is currently a US history instructor at Northern Virginia Community College, USA.
Interpreting the Chicago Freedom Movement: The Past Fifty Years Toward the Apex of Civil Rights Activism: Antecedents of the Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-66 In Their Own VoicesThe Story of the Movement in the Voices of its Participants The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Federal Fair Housing Act The Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities: Chicago and Fair Housing The North Shore Summer Project: "We're Gonna Open Up the Whole North Shore" Low-Income Tenant Unions during the Chicago Freedom Movement: Innovation and Impact The Movement for Fair Lending and the Chicago Freedom Movement The Martin Luther King Legacy in North Lawndale: The Dr. King Legacy Apartments and Historic District The Movement Didn't Stop Perspectives on the Legacy of Jesse Jackson, Sr. Chicago Politics, the Chicago Freedom Movement, and the Nation Roots of the Environmental Justice Movement: Community Mobilization to End Lead Poisoning Youth and Nonviolence: Then and Now Music and the Movement in Two Voices Women in the Movement: Two Stories Labor and the Chicago Freedom Movement Nonviolence and the Chicago Freedom Movement Movement Success: The Long View The Movement is Now: A Message to Young People A Note from the Next Generation: Reflections of the Eve of a Pilgrimage
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.04.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century |
Zusatzinfo | 19 b&w photos, 3 maps, 3 figures |
Verlagsort | Lexington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8131-6650-0 / 0813166500 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-6650-6 / 9780813166506 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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