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020 _a9780809332458
020 _a0809332450
020 _z9780809332441 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z0809332442 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aF548.9.N4
_bM34 2013
082 0 0 _a323.092
_aB
_223
100 1 _aMcKersie, Robert B.
245 1 2 _aA decisive decade
_h[electronic resource] :
_ban insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s /
_cRobert B. McKersie ; with a foreword by James R. Ralph Jr.
260 _aCarbondale :
_bSouthern Illinois University Press,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (xxvi, 255 pages :)
_billustrations, maps ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aMcKersie, Robert B.
650 0 _aCivil rights workers
_zIllinois
_zChicago
_vBiography
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zIllinois
_zChicago
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights
_zIllinois
_zChicago
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAfrican American civil rights workers
_zIllinois
_zChicago
_vBiography
651 0 _aChicago (Ill.)
_xRace relations.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780809332458/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33049
_d33049