| Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago Contributor(s): Anderson, Alan (Author), Pickering, George W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820331201 ISBN-13: 9780820331201 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6" W x 9" (1.74 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
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| Publisher Description: In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering 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--a failure he would not live to redeem--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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pickering, George W.: - GEORGE W. PICKERING was a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit until his death in 2002.Anderson, Alan: - ALAN B. ANDERSON is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University. |