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A political education: Black politics and education reform in Chicago since the 1960s (UNC Press Books, 2018). Tuttle Jr, William M. "Labor conflict and racial violence: The Black worker in Chicago, 1894–1919." Labor History 10.3 (1969): 408–432. Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970). Weems Jr, Robert E.
The Chicago Public Schools boycott, also known as Freedom Day, was a mass boycott and demonstration against the segregationist policies of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on October 22, 1963. [1] More than 200,000 students stayed out of school, and tens of thousands of Chicagoans joined in a protest that culminated in a march to the office of ...
Front page of Chicago Maroon on January 17, 1962, with the headline "UC Admits Housing Segregation". According to Chicago Maroon managing editor Avima Ruder, a staffer at the student paper, found a copy of the university budget, and "we discovered that the University owned a lot of segregated apartment buildings...It was really bizarre because our student population at that point was largely ...
De facto racial segregation in education, housing and employment; SCLC's establishment of a campaign in the Northern United States; Resulted in: Freedom Sunday rally and Chicago City Hall march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966; Chicago branch of Operation Breadbasket established in 1966; Summit Agreement produced on August 26, 1966
From Sit-ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813041513. Oppenheimer, Martin (1989). The Sit-In Movement of 1960. Carlson Publishing. ISBN 9780926019102. Schmidt, Christopher W. (2018). The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era. University of Chicago Press.
From the mid-1960s until the late 1980s, Chicago's Marquette Park was the scene of many racially charged rallies that erupted in violence. The rallies often spilled into the residential areas surrounding the park.
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops. Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None ...
This contributed to the neighborhood's population changing from 87% white in 1950 to 91% black in 1960. The Contract Buyers League emerged in response to widespread racial discrimination and segregation in Chicago during the 1960s.