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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.
Van Pelt Library F548.9.N4 M34 2013
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- 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
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