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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKersie, Robert B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McKersie, Robert B.

African American civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Civil rights--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.

Chicago (Ill.).

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

Contents:

The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the Civil Rights movement and to Alex Poinsett

Campaigns on the employment front

Tim Black and the Motorola campaign

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.

ISBN:

9780809332441

0809332442

OCLC:

809613760