https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp My Chicago Movement Timeline en-us 2022-03-03 15:53:01 UTC 2022-03-03 16:36:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 108070218 https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076177193 he Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and Al Raby, was created to challenge systemic racial segregation and discrimination in Chicago and its suburbs. The movement, which included rallies, protest marches, boycotts, and other forms of non-violent direct action, addressed a variety of issues facing black Chicago residents, including segregated housing, educational deficiencies, income, employment, and health disparities based on racism and black community development. The Chicago Freedom Movement, the most ambitious civil rights campaign in the northern United States, lasted from mid-1965 to early 1967]]> 2022-03-03 16:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076177193 108070218 https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076179445 credited with inspiring the Fair Housing Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968.

]]> 2022-03-03 16:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076179445 108070218 https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076181122 The Chicago Campaign began in July 1965 when local civil rights groups invited Dr. King to lead demonstrations against segregation in education and housing as well as employment discrimination. Chicago activist Albert Raby, leader of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), asked the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to join them in a nonviolent campaign to achieve fair or open housing in the city.]]> 2022-03-03 16:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076181122 108070218 https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076186483 Dr. King stayed in Chicago until January 1967, while Jackson settled permanently in the city to lead the Chicago branch of Operation Breadbasket. In 1968 the U.S. Congress passed the 1968 Fair Housing Act, as the most direct result of the Chicago Freedom Movement.]]> 2022-03-03 16:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076186483 108070218 https://padlet.com/108070218/sxlsdaonotq646kp/wish/2076186498 On January 7, 1966, King and the SCLC announced plans for a Chicago Freedom Movement, a campaign that marked the expansion of their civil rights activities from the South to northern cites. King and his family moved to a Chicago slum at the end of January to bring attention to housing conditions of tens of thousands of black Chicago residents while CCCO organized mass nonviolent protests in the city.

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