Description: Building upon recent works, the contributors reexamine the movement and illuminate its lasting contributions in order to challenge conventional perceptions that have underestimated its impressive legacy.
Brief description: Mary Lou Finley is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University Seattle and coauthor of Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements.
Review Quotes:
If you liked the film Selma, you'll enjoy this book, because the Chicago Freedom Movement was the Selma of the North. This well-written volume captures the excitement of that movement and explores its legacy a half century later. Today's Black Lives Matter movement stands on the shoulders of an older generation of civil rights activists, including the Chicago Freedom movement. The book offers the kind of history lessons that we need to learn from the past. This volume--accessible to all readers--is a remarkable, inspiring achievement, clearly a labor of love among the activists and scholars who put it together.
--Peter Dreier. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College and author of The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame