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Fred Hampton giving a speech at a rally in Grant Park, Chicago 1969. The 1960s was an era characterized by organization-driven social movements. Chicago was home to organizations like the Illinois Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, the Young Patriots, and later Rising Up Angry. These organizations all sought to address issues like ...
The passage of civil rights laws in the 1960s also affected Chicago and other northern cities. In the 1960s and the 1970s, many middle- and upper-class Americans continued to move from the city for better housing and schools in the suburbs. Office building resumed in the 1960s.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968, and drew an estimated 7,000 to ...
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. It began in the early 1960s, and continued through the early 1970s. [3] It is often synonymous with cultural liberalism and with the various social changes of the decade.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226238008. Graham, Hugh Davis (1980). "On Riots and Riot Commisions: Civil Disorders in the 1960s" (PDF). Public Historian. 2 (4): 7– 27. doi:10.2307/3377640. JSTOR 3377640. Grimshaw, William J. (1992). Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991. Chicago: University of Chicago ...
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
This, in turn, led to black market butchers, runs on beef supplies, and the rise of pasta as a main dish. In time, of course, meat supplies stabilized and prices dropped, but the damage had been done.
The United States experienced a series of "long hot summers" of racial unrest during the mid-to-late 1960s. They started with the Harlem riots in July 1964, and the Watts riots in August 1965. During the first nine months of 1967, over 150 riots erupted across American cities. The most destructive riots were in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New ...