By Maya Wiley (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) How do we rebuild an entire region, rebuild our country, and make it healthier, increasing the economic, social and political well-being of all its residents? And why does it matter for the nation? These are questions posed by the story of Gulf Coast rebuilding and of the fight to recover New Orleans. To answer … [Read more...] about “Structural Racism and Rebuilding New Orleans” by Maya Wiley (November-December 2006 P&R Issue)
“Race, Poverty and Oral History” by Alan H. Stein & Gene B. Preuss (September-October 2006 Issue)
By Alan H. Stein & Gene B. Preuss (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) “Oral history” is a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life. It is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders … [Read more...] about “Race, Poverty and Oral History” by Alan H. Stein & Gene B. Preuss (September-October 2006 Issue)
“Freedom Riders” by Raymond Arsenault (July-August 2006 P&R Issue)
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)
“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)
“Forty Years of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago” by Dick Simpson (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By Dick Simpson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Forty years ago, the civil rights marches burst upon the scene in Chicago. Within a year, there was a summit agreement of sorts between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mayor Richard J. Daley. Many at the time saw the agreement as a sham and simply a way for Dr. King to leave town and take the movement other places … [Read more...] about “Forty Years of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago” by Dick Simpson (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
