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The Chicago Freedom Movement was the most ambitious civil rights campaign in the Northern United States, lasted from mid-1965 to August 1966, and is largely credited with inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
2.6 Chicago Freedom Movement (1965–1966) and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1967) 2.7 Memphis sanitation strike (1968) 3 King assassination (April 4, 1968)
Albert Anderson Raby (1933 – November 23, 1988) was a teacher at Chicago's Hess Upper Grade Center who secured the support of Martin Luther King Jr. to desegregate schools and housing in Chicago between 1965 and 1967.
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. [1] The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2 .
A native of Alabama, Black was raised in Chicago, Illinois, and studied the city's African-American history. He was active in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, most notably participating in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Chicago Freedom Movement during 1965 and 1966. [1]
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Running from Chicago across northern Indiana and east to Detroit, the route would stop in South Bend and mirror well-known trails traversed by freedom seekers as part of the Underground Railroad.
1965–66 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, centering on the topic of open housing, paves the way for the 1968 Fair Housing Act. 1966 July 13–14: Chicago student nurse massacre; 1967 January 26 – 27, Major snowstorm deposits 23 inches of snow, closing the city for several days. August 1: maiden voyage of UAC TurboTrain. 1968: