• The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby. It was supported...
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    project of the movement over the next two years, with Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and Al Raby leading the Chicago Freedom Movement around the issue...
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  • up freedom movement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freedom movement may refer to: Civil rights movement, in the United States Chicago Freedom Movement...
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    in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national...
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    leadership to develop the grassroots movement. More than 1,000 out-of-state volunteers participated in Freedom Summer alongside thousands of black Mississippians...
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    James Bevel (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    continue the 1961 Freedom Rides after they were attacked. He helped with initiating and directing the 1961 and 1962 voting rights movement in Mississippi...
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  • By 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Chicago's Coordinating Council...
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    and Albert Raby led the Chicago Freedom Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders. Two years later...
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    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D...
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    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    Schools ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. University...
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    Chicago Freedom Movement—the marriage of King's SCLC and the CCCO (Coordinating Council of Chicago Organizations), led by King's co-leader in Chicago...
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  • This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement...
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    The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against...
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    Marquette Park rallies (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    horrified by the anger, fear and violence he saw on the day of King's Chicago Freedom Movement march. On the 50th anniversary of the march, around 1,400 people...
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    Jews played an important role in the American civil rights movement, forming alliances with African American leaders and organizations. Jewish individuals...
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    Underground: Fathers of St. Edmund", Civil Rights Movement Archive. "Freedom Day in Selma", Civil Rights Movement Archive. Zinn, Howard (1965). SNCC: The New...
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    The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign or student sit-in movement, were a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    combined organizations' efforts were fostered under the aegis of the Chicago Freedom Movement. During that spring, several white couple/black couple tests of...
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    organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In his autobiography, Lay...
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    father was hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days...
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  • Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom...
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  • from 1964 to 1968, during the Civil Rights Movement. Created as the partisan political branch of the Freedom Democratic organization (a contemporary Civil...
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    Richard J. Daley (category Chicago City Council members)
    other hand, it advocated open housing in Chicago. The campaign, that became known as the Chicago Freedom Movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., who...
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    Wichita Dockum sit-ins Civil Rights Movement Archive ~ History, personal stories, and photos of the Freedom Movement Sit-ins: Atlanta, Georgia, Civil Rights...
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  • Selma (film) (category Civil rights movement in film)
    television and the wounded are treated at Brown Chapel, the movement's headquarter church. Movement attorney Fred Gray asks federal Judge Frank Minis Johnson...
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  • Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian...
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    ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated...
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    Bernard Lafayette (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    Bernard LaFayette". Retrieved April 4, 2011. "Bernard Lafayette Jr". Chicago Freedom Movement. Bernard Lafayette at URI. Retrieved July 3, 213 University of...
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  • William Moyer (category Chicago Freedom Movement)
    principal organizer in the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement. He was an author, and a founding member of the Movement for a New Society. Initially trained...
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    was widely published, and became an important text for the civil rights movement in the United States. The letter has been described as "one of the most...
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