• The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby. It was supported...
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    project of the movement over the next two years, with Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and Al Raby leading the Chicago Freedom Movement around the issue...
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  • organizers in 2022 Civil rights movement, in the United States Chicago Freedom Movement, during the broader Civil Rights Movement Libertarianism, a political...
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    James Bevel (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    continue the 1961 Freedom Rides after they were attacked. He helped with initiating and directing the 1961 and 1962 voting rights movement in Mississippi...
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    and Albert Raby led the Chicago Freedom Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders. Two years later...
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    in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national...
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  • By 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Chicago's Coordinating Council...
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  • The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1966 by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Tor Faegre and...
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    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    Schools ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. University...
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    (Film). Freedom Songs Production. Blackmon Lowery, Lynda (2015). Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement. Dial...
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  • from 1964 to 1968 during the Civil Rights Movement. Created as the partisan political branch of the Freedom Democratic organization (a contemporary Civil...
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    Chicago Freedom Movement—the marriage of King's SCLC and the CCCO (Coordinating Council of Chicago Organizations), led by King's co-leader in Chicago...
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    Bernard Lafayette (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    Bernard LaFayette". Retrieved April 4, 2011. "Bernard Lafayette Jr". Chicago Freedom Movement. Bernard Lafayette at URI. Retrieved July 3, 213 University of...
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  • William Moyer (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    principal organizer in the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement. He was an author, and a founding member of the Movement for a New Society. Initially trained...
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    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D...
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    Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a...
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    Marquette Park rallies (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    horrified by the anger, fear and violence he saw on the day of King's Chicago Freedom Movement march. On the 50th anniversary of the march, around 1,400 people...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    combined organizations' efforts were fostered under the aegis of the Chicago Freedom Movement. During that spring, several white couple/black couple tests of...
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  • Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom...
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    Chicago Lawn became a target for civil rights groups' open housing marches during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1966, as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement...
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    leadership of the Nation's Temple No. 2 in Chicago. His younger brother Kalot Muhammad became the leader of the movement's self-defense arm, the Fruit of Islam...
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    spurred many Jews to join the civil rights movement to oppose racism and segregation. During the Freedom Summer, the deaths of Jewish activists Michael...
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    Danny Lyon (category University of Chicago alumni)
    during the Civil Rights Movement. He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the...
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    attended Dwight L. Moody's Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago (now the Moody Bible Institute) from 1894 to 1895, hoping to become a missionary...
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  • Selma (film) (category Civil rights movement in film)
    television and the wounded are treated at Brown Chapel, the movement's headquarter church. Movement attorney Fred Gray asks federal Judge Frank Minis Johnson...
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    The black power movement or black liberation movement emerged in mid-1960s from the civil rights movement in the United States, reacting against its moderate...
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    Richard J. Daley (category Chicago City Council members)
    other hand, it advocated open housing in Chicago. The campaign, that became known as the Chicago Freedom Movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., who...
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    minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights...
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    Jesse Jackson (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    full-time on the civil rights movement. He was ordained a minister in 1968 and was awarded a Master of Divinity degree by Chicago Theological Seminary in 2000...
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    father was hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days...
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