Lessons Learned from My Years as a Bureaucracy Buster. 78. Birth and Growth in the Crucible: 1. Beware of Fascism ; 2. My Immigrant Parents ; 3. Childhood Trauma, Adolescence, Family Secrets ; 4. Meeting the Mob ; 5. College Years: Independence and Epiphanies ; 6. The Path to Racine and the Black Panther Party ; 7. Cementing Our Commitment in Racine ; 8. Confronting the Politics of German Measles ; 9. I Become a Mother -- Part II. Early Days and Uptown: 10. Transition and Growth ; 11. Welcome to Chicago ; 12. Summer 1972 ; 13. Rally to End Police Brutality and Establish Community Control ; 14. Dump Hanrahan! ; 15. Model Cities Election: A Survival Ticket ; 16. The 1973 Community Control of Police Conference ; 17. Personal Tragedy Strikes ; 18. Registering to Vote for Community Control of Policing ; 19. Housing Wipeout in Uptown ; 20. The Community Says, "Don't Sell Grapes" -- Part III. Building a Base of Operations: 21. Cha Cha Runs for Alderman ; 22. Structures for Survival: The Road Toward Community Control ; 23. The Avery Lawsuit ; 24. COINTELPRO and the Hampton/Clark Lawsuit ; 25. Fighting the Master Plan ; 26. Early Days of the Heart of Uptown Coalition ; 27. Uptown People's Community Health Center ; 28. The 1978 Special Election: Jumping in Feet First ; 29. A Year of Elections and Community Pride ; 30. Transforming Child Development ; 31. Political Reaction: Attacks against the Lunch Program and the Clinic ; 32. Housing Set Ablaze for Profit ; 33. Employment Action Coalition ; 34. Lasting Legacies: The Uptown People's Law Center and Black Lung Work -- Part IV. Chicago Joins the Country at a Crossroads: 35. The National Pendulum Swings ; 36. A Local Movement Is Born ; 37. Schools in Crisis ; 38. The Mollison Boycott ; 39. The Parent Equalizers Challenge Chicago Mastery Learning ; 40. Anger at School Board Appointments Opens the Floodgates ; 41. Public Housing in Crisis ; 42. POWER: People Organized for Welfare and Employment Rights ; 43. Chicago's First Black Mayor -- Part V. 1983-1987, The Washington Years: 44. "Council Wars" ; 45. "Vote with Purpose": The 1984 Primaries ; 46. Police Misconduct and the Hegemony of the FOP ; 47. A Vortex of White Supremacists and Federal Agents ; 48. The Playing Field Changes ; 49. The 1987 Elections -- Part VI. Aldermanic Years: From Making the Majority to Being the Minority Voice: 50. Transition to the Role of Governing ; 51. The Inouye Resolution ; 52. Avery Lawsuit Settlement Entangled in Harold's Last Days ; 53. Aftermath and Effect of Harold's Death ; 54. A Tent City ; 55. Human Rights Legislation ; 56. Making Democracy Work ; 57. Domestic Violence ; 58. Chelsea House Becomes Friendly Towers ; 59. The Winding Path to the Avery Settlement: Saving Units One by One ; 60. Joining the Fight against Apartheid ; 61. Tripling AIDS Funding ; 62. My 1991 Reelection Campaign ; 63. Uptown Youth Force ; 64. Navigating the Police ; 65. Heat Wave ; 66. Steadying the Course as Affordable Housing Hits a Dry Spell ; 67. "Is Burke in Jail Yet?" ; 68. My Third Term: From Twentieth-Century Activism to Twenty-First-Century Governance ; 69. Homeless Task Force ; 70. Budgets: A Symbolic and True Battleground ; 71. The War on Terror ; 72. Unfinished School Reform: Uplift, Renaissance 21, and Charter Schools Gain a Foothold ; 73. The 2003 Campaign and a Political Compromise ; 74. Wilson Yard ; 75. Deciding on One Last Term - and My List ; 76. Missed Opportunities: Affordable Housing and Policing ; 77. Do No Harm ; 78. Lessons Learned from My Years as a Bureaucracy Buster.
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