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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement
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by James R., Jr. Ralph
Sales Rank: 499897
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press January 30, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674626877
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674626874
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Library Journal
Historian Ralph argues that when Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) decided in the mid-1960s to mobilize nonviolent street protests against Chicago's long-standing and pervasive housing discrimination, he did not sufficiently appreciate the differences between the targets of SCLC's successful protests in the South ("public-impact" voting rights, education opportunities, and public accommodations) and the target of the Chicago campaign ("private-impact" legal rights to housing). In addition, King had to contend with local organizations whose leaders were vying for power and trying to protect their own turf. Though Ralph claims that King's protests helped empower the city's black community, his analysis painstakingly documents and conclusively shows that King's campaign was counterproductive and severely cut into the broad-based support and momentum of the Civil Rights Movement. For academic collections.
- Jack Forman, Mesa Coll. Lib., San Diego, Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
Northern Protest makes a major contribution to our understanding of American race relations in the twentieth centuryRalph is equally well informed about Dr. King and his advisers and about Mayor Daley and his circle, and he tells his story with vigor and dramatic force.
--David Herbert Donald, Harvard University
This is an important, well-researched, clearly written, and judiciously argued study that enriches the already extensive literature of the modern African-American freedom struggle. Ralphsees King within a broader context, as part of a social movement. The Chicago protest movement of 1966 and 1967marked a crucial transition in King's life and the development of the SCLC. Ralph's book, therefore, raises crucial questions regarding the effectiveness of King's nonviolent struggles as a means of confronting the social and economic problems of the era after the major civil rights reforms. This book is clearly the best on the subject.
--Clayborne Carson, editor-in-Chief, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers
James Ralph has written the fullest and most perceptive account yet to appear of the 1966 civil-rights campaign in Chicago, a crucial event in the history of the movement. He has traced the origins of the campaign in the politics of Chicago's African-American community; he has described the uneasy relationship between local activists and the national civil-rights leaders who came to their aid; and he has explained why the 1966 campaign produced reactions in Washington so different from those the earlier campaigns in the South had created. In the process, he has helped illuminate the transformation of racial politics in America from the heroic days of the early civil-rights movement to the more fractious and ambiguous battles of the late 1960s and beyond.
--Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
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