By Bernard LaFayette, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Although the most well-publicized focus of the Chicago Freedom Movement was the Open Housing Campaign, a parallel “End-the-Slums” campaign raised the issue of housing and health in a combined research and advocacy campaign. This campaign focused on the condition of slum housing in the area, where … [Read more...] about “The End-the-Slums Movement” by Bernard Lafayette, Jr. (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
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“Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By Mary Lou Finley (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Housing segregation still persists in Chicago, and by some measures poverty has even worsened in the 40 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. moved into a slum apartment on Chicago’s West Side in January 1966 as a profound statement of support for the poor. Yet to conclude that the movement was, as one historian … [Read more...] about “Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
