Confronting the Color Line - The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago

Informationen zum Autor ALAN B. ANDERSON is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University. Klappentext Confronting the Color Line examine the hopes and strategies! the frustrations and internal conflicts! the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a protracted local struggle to force equality in education and open housing for blacks! the city also became the focus of national attention in the summer of 1966 as Martin Luther King! Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenged the entrenched political machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The failure of King's campaign marked the final unsuccessful attempt to secure significant social change in Chicago! and soon afterward the national civil rights movement itself would unravel amid white backlash and cries of black power. Picking up the threads of our own recent history! Confronting the Color Line examines a political movement that remains unfinished! a dilemma for America's system of democratic social change that remains unsolved.

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• Authors: Alan Anderson, Alan B. Anderson, Alan B./ Pickering Anderson, George Pickering, George W Pickering, George W. Pickering, Sam Pickering, Samuel F. Pickering
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780820331201
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3120-1
• No. of pages: 515
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Biography / Autobiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies