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In mid-August, high-level negotiations began between city leaders, movement activists and representatives of the Chicago Real Estate Board. On August 26, after the Chicago Freedom Movement had declared that it would march into Cicero, an agreement, consisting of positive steps to open up housing opportunities in metropolitan Chicago, was ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Despite smaller crowds, activists at Democrats' convention call Chicago anti-war protests a success SOPHIA TAREEN, LEA SKENE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOEY CAPPELLETTI August 22, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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 ...
The Chicago Brown Berets were activists for public education. The group occupied Frobel Middle School for a day before the Chicago Police removed the protestors from the school. [10] That evening, a riot broke out; several rioters and one policeman were injured as the police tried to disperse the crowd. [10] The rioters also destroyed six ...