By Raymond Arsenault (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, published by Oxford University Press, is an extraordinary study, by Raymond Arsenault, the appropriately named John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg (rarsenau@stpt.usf.edu). The product … [Read more...] about “Freedom Riders” by Raymond Arsenault (July-August 2006 P&R Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 Issue)
By Mary Lou Finley (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Housing segregation still persists in Chicago, and by some measures poverty has even worsened in the 40 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. moved into a slum apartment on Chicago’s West Side in January 1966 as a profound statement of support for the poor. Yet to conclude that the movement was, as one … [Read more...] about “Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 Issue)
“Assessing the Chicago Freedom Movement” by James Ralph (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By James Ralph (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The Chicago Freedom Movement was the most ambitious civil rights mobilization ever launched in the North. The product of an alliance of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO—a coalition of Chicago civil rights groups), the Chicago Freedom … [Read more...] about “Assessing the Chicago Freedom Movement” by James Ralph (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
“When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
By Ira Katznelson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Hurricane Katrina’s violent winds and waters tore away the shrouds that ordinarily mask the country’s racial pattern of poverty and neglect. Understandably, most commentators focused on the woeful federal response. Others, taking a longer view, yearned for a burst of activism patterned on the New Deal. … [Read more...] about “When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
“Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
By Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Race and class oppression form the backdrop of everyday reality in the United States. Popular culture is blind to the endemic and systemic nature of racism in our political and economic institutions. Mostly, we tell ourselves comforting stories about who we are and what we have done. Told most … [Read more...] about “Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
