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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780809332458 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0809332442 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780809332441

Print version: McKersie, Robert B. Decisive decade : an insider’s view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013] xxvi, 255 pages ISBN 9780809332441

Includes bibliographical references and index

The First Unitarian Church of Chicago: my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965: marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation.

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