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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.
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:
2.6 Chicago Freedom Movement (1965–1966) and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1967) ... Timeline of the civil rights movement; Notes
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.
monk, freedom of religion self-martyr Albert Lutuli: 1898 1967 South Africa: President of the African National Congress, [4] against apartheid in South Africa, [5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [5] Edgar Nixon: 1899 1987 United States: Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist Roy Wilkins: 1901 1981 United States
Marquette Park rallies - A march for open housing organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chicago Freedom Movement turned violent after they attempted to march through the then all-white neighborhood Marquette Park. Around 5,000 white locals threw rocks, bricks and bottles at marchers and police while yelling racial insults, with King being ...
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.
In African-American history, the post–civil rights era is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained federal oversight and enforcement of voter registration and electoral practices in states or areas ...