what was the Chicago Freedom Movement?
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The impact of the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement on the decade’s civil rights struggles was as significant as any other campaign of that era. By bringing the freedom struggle to Chicago, where the Democratic Party machine was closely linked to the national party and the White House of President Lyndon Johnson, the movement raised the bar and gave the struggle for equality a national focus.\n\nIt was a time when thousands were on the move. Calling for an end to Jim Crow in public accommodations, they boycotted the city bus system in Montgomery, Alabama. They sat in at lunch counters across the South, demanding service.\n\nNational guardsmen and federal troops were protecting children who were breaking down the walls of segregated schools. Black and white teams of youth had gone south to challenge poll taxes and organize voter registration drives. “Whites Only” signs were being torn down.\n\nPeople from all walks of life were getting involved in the struggle to eliminate the legacies of slavery. Although the struggle took on many forms and covered diverse areas of the South, it came to be called simply the “movement.” To say someone or some organization was “part of the movement” was to say it all.\n\nMade up of many diverse groups, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy in the mid-1950s, sparked the imagination of civil rights supporters everywhere.\n\nAs its prestige grew far beyond its numbers, the SCLC and its leaders became the spark plug that ignited mass protests across the South, bringing the demands of the movement to the attention of the nation as scenes of snarling police dogs flashed on screens television.\n\nKing and Abernathy decided to bring the movement “up south” and the search for a place to begin brought them to Chicago. There they found the ingredients they were seeking: a substantial base of support among both white and Black ministers, a base of Black and white activists, steeled in struggles against racist hiring practices, police brutality and racial discrimination in housing and education.\n\nAs important as any other consideration, the struggle for equality enjoyed the support of important sections of organized labor – Region 4 of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Packinghouse Union, both led by African Americans.\n\nIn addition, many individual leaders and rank-and-file activists had long been associated with the civil rights movement. SCLC planners noted that Walter Reuther, the UAW president, walked arm in arm with King at the 1963 March on Washington. King and other SCLC leaders saw these as the essential elements of a successful campaign.\n\nThus was born the Chicago Freedom Movement (CFM), with King and Al Raby, a leader of Chicago’s Coordinating Committee of Community Organizations (CCCO), its co-chairs. CFM activities and policies were determined by an committee made up of representatives of the city’s diverse civil rights organizations.\n\nSCLC dispatched field staff to help lay the groundwork. In the spring of 1966, King, his wife and their children moved into an apartment on the west side of Chicago and the campaign of the summer of 1966, with its demand to end slums, began in earnest.\n\nRichard J. Daley, Chicago’s “shoot -to-kill” mayor, made known his displeasure that “outside troublemakers” were coming to “his” city and told all who would listen there were no slums in Chicago. He also declared that he would not meet with King, thus drawing a line in the sand.\n\nFor those who were to lead the summer campaign, these statements were ominous. The nation and the world were to soon learn what they already knew – that the likes of “Bull” Connor, Lester Maddox and George Wallace had their counterparts in the Richard J. Daleys of Chicago and other northern cities.\n\nDuring the summer of 1966 the movement staged a number of marches in white communities protesting housi
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there have been a number of reform movements in history.  the most likely ones you might be talking about are The Protestant Reformation or the social reform movement of the 19th century that followed on the heels of the industrial revolution.
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The civil rights movement was more for everyone that was being descrimintated as opposed to the gay rights movement was specificaly for gays.\nThey are both the same because they served the purpos of trying to get veryone to have the same, equal rights, but the gay rights movement was more specific. Though the civil rights movment was focused on mainly blacks, it was more for everyone, as opposed to just gays.
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Cabrini Green- Chicago, IL\na/k/a\n\nThe 'Greens'\n\nThey were torn down finally in the late 1990's..
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I live in Indiana, U.S.A.\n\nTo me, freedom is being able to step outside of my home and know radical groups and fantasist are not going to blow me up or gun me down. Sure, we have gangs but when you look at the world news, America is the safest place to live.\n\nI thrive in Democracy. I live to vote and I adore our process.\n\nSure, there are rotten apples that spoil things but who cares.....I don't have to hide my face as a woman, worry about getting my privates mutilated, sell myself for a bowl of food, dig in a dumpster for a scrap of clothing. I have the right to own a business, run it with full benifits as a man. I can vote or not vote and not fear getting shot at for either. I can have an abortion or not, depending on what is right for ME. \n\nI can speak about anything I wish to speak about and have no fear of retribution with anything but words.\n\nFreedom is just that. Being free of restraints imposed by others. My only restraints are place by me and me alone.
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Essay on The Civil Rights Movements of the 60?s\nThe Civil Rights Movements of the 60?s ... However this was the beginning of many future accomplishments.\nhttp://www.dedicatedwriters.com/paper/The_Civil_Rights_Movements_of_-120363.html
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It was a World's Fair, and it was in Chicago.  There've been a number of books about it - "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson is a good one to start with.
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he was very peaceful however he advocated a separation between whites and blacks. he urged blacks to start their own organizations and reject regular, white based culture to make their own unique one. He was a freedom rider as well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement
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Full explanation here\n\nhttp://search.eb.com/women/articles/women's_liberation_movement.html
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whatever, retard...\n\ndolphins whooped all over them in chicago.\n\nget your lousy, and i do mean lousy facts straight before coming on here talking smack.
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March 14, 1960 in Chicago
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"Chicano youth at the forefront of community change is a tradition dating back more than 35 years. In 1968, over 10,000 mostly Chicano students from Roosevelt, Garfield, Wilson, and Lincoln high schools (all in East LA), walked out of their schools to protest poor quality education, overcrowded schools, and racist curriculum.  \n\nThose young people built a student movement that shut down the Los Angeles Unified School District and led to reforms, such as establishing Chicano Studies and bilingual education. The students demonstrated that they could play an active role in changing policy. Beyond the reforms gained, the 1968 “blowouts” launched a legacy of struggle for educational justice and sparked the Southwest-wide Chicano youth movement."\n\nI really didn't know anything about this, but I did some searching around.  That's a direct quote from the first site listed below, and there are some other links too...\n\nI do think that this has important links to immigration now and how people will feel about equitable education given a large number of illegal immigrants of latino origin--just a thought
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It is in the state of Illinois which is in the Midwest. Chicago is famous for its slaughter houses for cattle and for former Mayor Richard Daley who blasted a speaker at the National Democrat Convention in 1968. That division in the party cost Hubert Humphrey the presidency. It is also called the Hub of the U.S. because so much shipping goes through Chicago to the rest of the country. \n\nI hope this helps.
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Chicago, Ill.  Check out the link below:
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A good theme song for the civil rights movement during the 60s. Not sure what you are asking. Origin?
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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is the annual holiday celebrated on June 19 in the United States to commemorate the end of slavery. Juneteenth has its origins in Texas, where it was primarily celebrated for more than a century. More recently, however, its observance has spread across the nation.