The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North - Couverture rigide

Livre 10 sur 28: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century

Carson, Clayborne

 
9780813166506: The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
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ISBN 10 : 0813166500 ISBN 13 : 9780813166506
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016

Synopsis

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) to form the Chicago Freedom Movement. The open housing demonstrations they organized eventually r

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À propos des auteurs

Mary Lou Finley is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University Seattle and coauthor of Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements.

Bernard LaFayette Jr. is Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Chair of the National Board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

James R. Ralph Jr. is Rehnquist Professor of American History and Culture at Middlebury College and author of Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement.

Pam Smith is a public historian and longtime Chicago consultant who served as a senior press aide to Jesse Jackson in his 1988 presidential campaign and to Barack Obama in his primary campaign for the US Senate. She is Executive Director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago.

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Éditeur
The University Press of Kentucky
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813166500
ISBN 13 
9780813166506
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
528
Éditeur
Finley Mary Lou, LaFayette Bernard, Ralph James R, Smith Pam
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9780813175003: The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North

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ISBN 10 :  0813175003 ISBN 13 :  9780813175003
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2019
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