The Chicago Freedom Movement

Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
Herausgeber: Finley, Mary Lou; Smith, Pam; Ralph, James R; Lafayette, Bernard

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Produktbeschreibung

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city.

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Produktdetails

• Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780813175003
• ISBN-10: 0813175003
• Artikelnr.: 48956192

Autorenporträt

Mary Lou Finley is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University Seattle and coauthor of Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Bernard LaFayette Jr., former Distinguished Senior Scholar in Residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, is the chair of the national board of SCLC, and author of In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma. James R. Ralph Jr. is Rehnquist Professor of American History and Culture at Middlebury College and author of Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement. Pam Smith is a public historian and longtime Chicago consultant who served as a senior press aide to Jesse Jackson in his 1988 presidential campaign and to Barack Obama in his primary campaign for the US Senate. She is Executive Director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago.