Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 1993
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- Title
- Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement
- Author
- Ralph Jr., James R.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674626877
- ISBN 13
- 9780674626874
After the triumphs of Montgomery and Selma, Martin Luther King, Jr., rallied his forces and headed north. The law was on his side, the nation seemed to be behind him, the crusade for civil rights was rapidly gathering momentum--and then, in Chicago, heartland of America, the movement stalled. What happened? This book is the first to give us the full story--a vivid account of how the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965-1967 attempted to combat northern segregation. Northern Protest captures this new kind of campaign for civil rights at a fateful turning point, with effects that pulse through the nation's race relations to the day.
Combating the outright, unconstitutional denial of basic political and civil rights had been King's focus in the South. In the North, the racial terrian was different. James Ralph analyzes the shift in the planning stages--moving from addressing public constitutional rights to private--impact legal rights--as King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) mounted an unprecedented attack on housing discrimination, one of the most blatant social and economic inequities of urban America. A crisis in the making is unfolded as King, the SCLC, and a coalition of multiracial Chicago civil rights groups mobilize protests against the city's unfair housing practices. Ralph introduces us to Chicago's white ethnics, city officials, and business and religious leaders in a heated confusion of responses. His vibrant account--based in part on many in-depth interviews with participants--reveals the true lineaments of urban America, with lessons reaching beyond the confines of the city. The Chicago Freedom Movement is given a national context--as King envisioned it, and as it finally played out. Here, the Chicago crusade becomes emblematic of the civil rights movement today and tomorrow. Ralph argues that this new push for equality in more private realms of American life actually undermined popular support for the movement and led to its ultimate decline.
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James Ralph has written the fullest and most perceptive account yet to appear of the 1966 civil-rights campaign in Chicago, a crucial event in the history of the movement. He has traced the origins of the campaign in the politics of Chicago's African-American community; he has described the uneasy relationship between local activists and the national civil-rights leaders who came to their aid; and he has explained why the 1966 campaign produced reactions in Washington so different from those the earlier campaigns in the South had created. In the process, he has helped illuminate the transformation of racial politics in America from the heroic days of the early civil-rights movement to the more fractious and ambiguous battles of the late 1960s and beyond.--Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
This is an important, well-researched, clearly written, and judiciously argued study that enriches the already extensive literature of the modern African-American freedom struggle. Ralph...sees King within a broader context, as part of a social movement. The Chicago protest movement of 1966 and 1967...marked a crucial transition in King's life and the development of the SCLC. Ralph's book, therefore, raises crucial questions regarding the effectiveness of King's nonviolent struggles as a means of confronting the social and economic problems of the era after the major civil rights reforms. This book is clearly the best on the subject.--Clayborne Carson, editor-in-Chief, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers
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