Operation Breadbasket An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966–1971 / Martin L. Deppe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deppe, Martin L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Church--Clergy--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.

Methodist Church.

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

Civil rights workers.

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

Civil rights movements.

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

African Americans.

African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago.

African American business enterprises.

Grocery trade--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Grocery trade.

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Economic conditions--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Operation Breadbasket (U.S.)--History.

Operation Breadbasket (U.S.).

Deppe, Martin L.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Operation Breadbasket is a narrative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, 1966-1971, an economic empowerment project that Martin Luther King Jr brought to Chicago as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement. Rev. Martin L. Deppe was a founding and active member of Breadbasket's steering committee throughout the life of this program. Using the power of the pulpit to galvanize consumer support including occasional economic withdrawal ("Don't Buy") efforts, the participating ministers, the project negotiated for a fair share of jobs in the African American community of Chicago, and in time added products and services originating from that community. By the end of six years, Breadbasket's fifteen "covenants" with milk, soft drink, chain store and other consumer-oriented industries, brought approximately $57 million dollars of new income into the black community annually. The program ended when the project's national director, Rev. Jesse Jackson, resigned in December 1971, and essentially took the program out of SCLC into his own Operation PUSH, later Rainbow PUSH. This book is both a history of Operation Breadbasket, and a memoir of life in it as written by one of Breadbasket's most active participants. Deppe uses his extensive files--steering committee minutes, memoranda, brochures, letters, sermonic material, Chicago Defender archives, colleagues' files--along with extensive new research, including interviews with several surviving participants."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The team

Early campaigns

Evolving campaigns

Expansion

Interruption

Breaking the chains

The hunger campaign

Proliferation

Internal issues

Decline and transformation

Afterword

Operation Breadbasket chronology

Operation Breadbasket organizational charts

Appendixes

Operation Breadbasket Steering Committee

Breadbasket business division

Covenant between SCLC operation breadbasket and the Chicago Unit, Great A&P Tea Company.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820350455

0820350451

OCLC:

978572704