"Resources"

May/June 2006 issue of Poverty & Race

Anderson, Alan and George Pickering. 1986. Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago. Athens: The University of Georgia Press.

Branch, Taylor. 2006. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Fairclough, Adam. 1987. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens: The University of Georgia Press.

Garrow, David (ed.) 1989. Chicago 1966: Open Housing Marches, Summit Negotiations, and Operation Breadbasket. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing.

Moyer, Bill with JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer, 2001. Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Gabriola Is., BC: New Society Publishers.

Nyden, Philip, 1987. Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Polikoff, Alexander. 2006. Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Ralph, James R., Jr. 1993. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Squires, Gregory, Larry Bennett, Kathleen McCourt, and
Philip Nyden. 1987. Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Street, Paul. 2005. Still Separate and Unequal: Race, Place, Policy and the State of Black Chicago. Chicago: The Chicago Urban League.

Tarrow, Sidney. 1998. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Theoharis, Jeanne F and Komozi Woodard. 2003. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Websites for the following organizations:

Metropolitan Tenants Organization
www.tenants-rights.org

National Community Reinvestment Coalition
www.ncrc.org

National Fair Housing Alliance
www.nationalfairhousing.org

National Low Income Housing Coalition
www.nlihc.org
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