By Bernard LaFayette, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Although the most well-publicized focus of the Chicago Freedom Movement was the Open Housing Campaign, a parallel “End-the-Slums” campaign raised the issue of housing and health in a combined research and advocacy campaign. This campaign focused on the condition of slum housing in the area, where … [Read more...] about “The End-the-Slums Movement” by Bernard Lafayette, Jr. (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
Chicago Freedom Movement
“Overall, Things Are Not Good” by Salim Muwakkil (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
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)
“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)
Symposium: The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later
"Assessing the Chicago Freedom Movement" by James Ralph "National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposals" from the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights "Katrina's Blueprint for Ending Poverty" by Lance Hill "Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement" by Mary Lou Finley "The … [Read more...] about Symposium: The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later
