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)
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“Half Full? Half Empty?” by James W. Loewen (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By James W. Loewen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) We all stare at the half-full glass of integration and racial justice. We all wish it were full. Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown and some others emphasize the empty top half, singling out neighborhoods and schools that have resegregated and stressing that white ethnic groups — “the Italian, Jews, Poles, and Russians” … [Read more...] about “Half Full? Half Empty?” by James W. Loewen (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
