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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 ...
This is a category for activists born, raised, or closely associated with Chicago. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
[10] The clinic's director, Dorthy Cutler, worked with Cook County Hospital and other major hospitals in the Chicago area to provide free medical care in the Chicago area. [25] 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 ...
Northwestern was one of the first Chicago-area schools to see groups of students, faculty members and activists camped on the lawn in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, part of a wave of ...
Political advocacy groups in Chicago (17 P) Public Interest Research Groups (1 C, 28 P) S. ... Anishinaabe tribal political organizations; Anti-Defamation League;
The UNO Charter School Network (UCSN) was founded in 1998 when UNO recognized the need to bolster public education in Chicago as a way to effect positive change in predominantly Hispanic communities. The first school, Octavio Paz Elementary was in Pilsen, Chicago and has since grown to 13 K-8 elementary schools and 3 high schools.
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The Chicago Public Schools boycott, also known as Freedom Day, was a mass boycott and demonstration against the segregationist policies of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on October 22, 1963. [1] More than 200,000 students stayed out of school, and tens of thousands of Chicagoans joined in a protest that culminated in a march to the office of ...