Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago - Softcover

Anderson, Alan; Pickering, George W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820331201 ISBN 13: 9780820331201

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2008

Synopsis

In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a protracted local struggle to force equality in education and open housing for blacks, the city also became the focus of national attention in the summer of 1966 as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenged the entrenched political machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The failure of King's campaign―a failure he would not live to redeem―marked the final unsuccessful attempt to secure significant social change in Chicago, and soon afterward the national civil rights movement itself would unravel amid white backlash and cries of black power.

Picking up the threads of our own recent history, Confronting the Color Line examines a political movement that remains unfinished, a dilemma for America's system of democratic social change that remains unsolved.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Anderson (Author)
ALAN B. ANDERSON is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University.

George W. Pickering (Author)
GEORGE W. PICKERING was a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit until his death in 2002.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820331201
• ISBN 13: 9780820331201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528