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Between 1915 and 1960, hundreds of thousands of Black southerners migrated to Chicago to escape violence and segregation, and to seek economic freedom. They went from being a mostly rural population to one that was mostly urban.
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 ...
In 1960, some 53 of the neighborhood's 51,347 residents were non-white, and of those 53 residents, three were black. [1] Some African Americans had jobs that enabled them to improve their housing, but were limited by discrimination by real estate agents and banks in getting loans, and related approvals.
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
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 ...
This is a house on Chicago's South Side in a predominantly Black neighborhood. This is a house at the same address on Chicago's North Side in a predominantly white neighborhood. The photos are ...
In the 1960s, the Chicago chapter of CORE began to challenge racial segregation in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), addressing disparities in educational opportunities for African American students. By the late 1950s, the Chicago Board of Education's maintenance of the neighborhood school policy resulted in a pattern of racial segregation in ...
The seven men arrested at sit-ins in mid-March, 1960, had already spent the month peacefully protesting Jim Crow laws that allowed segregation in schools, businesses and other public places; bans ...