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)
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“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)
Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
Introduction Forty years ago this year, civil rights activists launched the first large-scale fair housing campaign in the country. By the mid-1960s legally sanctioned segregation was clearly crumbling. Protest in the south had led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, addressing some of the worst racial injustices. But the subtler injustice of the … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
A PRRAC Report (December 2005). By Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler. Read Report Here... Excerpt: "The struggle for open housing begun by the Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966 is still very much in progress, in Chicago and across the country. If the aims of the Freedom Movement were overly ambitious, one can only fault its leaders – as one black reader did in a letter to … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)