The Chicago Freedom Movement : Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activism in the north / edited by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith ; foreword by Clayborne Carson.
Introduction / Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith -- Part 1. Living the Chicago Freedom Movement. In their own voices : the story of the movement as told by the participants -- Part 2. Background and history. Interpreting the Chicago Freedom Movement : the last fifty years / James R. Ralph Jr ; Toward the apex of civil rights activism : antecedents of the Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-1966 / Christopher Robert Reed -- Part 3. The impact of the Chicago Freedom Movement. The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Federal Fair Housing Act / Leonard S. Rubinowitz ; The leadership council for metropolitan open communities : Chicago and fair housing / Brian White ; The North Shore Summer Project : "We're gonna open up the whole North Shore" / Gail Schechter ; Tenant unions during the Chicago Freedom Movement : innovation and impact / Herman Jenkins ; The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending / Mary Lou Finley ; Martin Luther King's legacy in North Lawndale : the Dr. King Legacy Apartments and Memorial District / Kimberlie Jackson ; The movement didn't stop / Jesse L. Jackson Sr. ; Perspectives on the legacy of Jesse Jackson Sr. / Al Sharpton ; The rise of independent Black political power in Chicago / Don Rose ; Roots of the Environmental Justice Movement : a community mobilizes to end childhood lead poisoning / Sherrilynn J. Bevel ; Youth and nonviolence : then and now / Pam Smith -- Part 4. Stories from the Chicago Freedom Movement. Music and the movement I : music and grassroots organizing / Jimmy Collier with Allegra Malone ; Music and the movement II : music for an urban movement / Gene Barge with Allegra Malone ; Women in the movement I : the women of SCLC-WSCP take action / Molly Martindale ; Women in the movement II : Dorothy Gautreaux / Hal Baron ; Labor and the Chicago Freedom Movement / Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, and Norman Hill -- Part 5. Lessons learned and the unfinished work. Nonviolence and the Chicago Freedom Movement / Bernard LaFayette Jr ; Movement success : the long view / Mary Lou Finley -- Epilogue: Nonviolence remix and today's millennials / Jonathan Lewis -- Chronology.
Series:
Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
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