Confronting the Color Line : The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago

George W Pickering

ISBN 10: 0820331201 / ISBN 13: 9780820331201

Edité par University Of Georgia Press Jan 2008, 2008

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Neuware - In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a protracted local struggle to force equality in education and open housing for blacks, the city also became the focus of national attention in the summer of 1966 as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenged the entrenched political machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The failure of King's campaign--a failure he would not live to redeem--marked the final unsuccessful attempt to secure significant social change in Chicago, and soon afterward the national civil rights movement itself would unravel amid white backlash and cries of black power. Picking up the threads of our own recent history, Confronting the Color Line examines a political movement that remains unfinished, a dilemma for America's system of democratic social change that remains unsolved.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Confronting the Color Line : The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago
• Éditeur: University Of Georgia Press Jan 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820331201
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820331201
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 31 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 31 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 789 grammes

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Synopsis

In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a protracted local struggle to force equality in education and open housing for blacks, the city also became the focus of national attention in the summer of 1966 as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenged the entrenched political machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The failure of King's campaign—a failure he would not live to redeem—marked the final unsuccessful attempt to secure significant social change in Chicago, and soon afterward the national civil rights movement itself would unravel amid white backlash and cries of black power. Picking up the threads of our own recent history, Confronting the Color Line examines a political movement that remains unfinished, a dilemma for America's system of democratic social change that remains unsolved.

À propos des auteurs

ALAN B. ANDERSON is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University.

GEORGE W. PICKERING was a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit until his death in 2002.