A decisive decade [electronic resource] : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s / Robert B. McKersie ; with a foreword by James R. Ralph Jr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 255 pages :) illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9780809332458
- 0809332450
- McKersie, Robert B
- Civil rights workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
- Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African American civil rights workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
- 323.092 B 23
- F548.9.N4 M34 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
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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