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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)
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:
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.
Like other ethnic groups in Chicago, black voters offered party loyalty and votes for political patronage. [24] From late 1965 to early 1967 Mayor Daley was confronted by the Chicago Freedom Movement to improve conditions in the black ghettos. On the one hand, the Chicago civil rights movement formed to fight for better schools.
1965 Women's Western Open; 1967 Chicago mayoral election; 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention; C. 1967 Chicago blizzard; Chicago Freedom Movement;
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.
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 .