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The group was founded in September 1998, after Matthew Shepard was murdered and three gay bashings that took place in Boystown, Chicago. It was originally called the Chicago Anti-Bashing Network; the group changed its name in 2004 to the Gay Liberation Network. They describe themselves as "A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Direct Action ...
The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel [1] [2] and Al Raby. It was supported by the Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
José Jiménez (August 8, 1948 – January 10, 2025), nicknamed Cha Cha, was a Puerto Rican-American political activist and the founder of the Young Lords, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. [1] [2] Started on September 23, 1968, it was most active in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an African-American community activist who fought for equal rights of public housing residents in the Cabrini-Green housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Conservative activists searching for traces of voter fraud are seizing on posts made on social media misinterpreting Michigan’s voter file. In a post to X that had been seen more than 5 million ...
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903. Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913. [1]Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910.
Hardiman further argued that allowing more organizations like Violence Interrupters to figure into what comes to be the solution could easily prove to be a win-win for the city.