By Salim Muwakkil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Martin Luther King’s publicity-savvy Southern Christian Leadership Conference arrived in Chicago with a campaign to attack racial biases and improve the quality of life in the city’s notoriously squalid black ghettos. The SCLC-Coordinating Council of Community Organizations collaboration was particularly focused … [Read more...] about “Overall, Things Are Not Good” by Salim Muwakkil (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
“Katrina’s Blueprint for Ending Poverty” by Lance Hill (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By Lance Hill (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) There is an old saying, “When you stumble, dig for gold.” When we encounter adversity, we seldom have the presence of mind to learn from it, although we generally learn more in life from our mistakes than from our successes. Hurricane Katrina was a monumental stumble that nearly landed us into an abyss. It scattered … [Read more...] about “Katrina’s Blueprint for Ending Poverty” by Lance Hill (May-June 2006 P&R 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)
“Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 P&R 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 historian … [Read more...] about “Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
“Farewell to the Leadership Council” (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) One of the concrete outcomes of the Chicago Freedom Movement was the founding of the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities in 1966. The organization was created as part of the final agreement reached on August 26, 1966, between the Movement and the City of Chicago. Now, four decades later, the Leadership Council is … [Read more...] about “Farewell to the Leadership Council” (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)