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Power to the Poor

Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

By: Gordon Keith Mantler

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Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

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Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

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The Multiracial Promise

Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America

By: Gordon K. Mantler

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Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America

By: Gordon K. Mantler

In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago. Washington's victory was unlikely not just because America's second city was one of the nation's most racially balkanized but also because it came at a time when Ronald Reagan and other political conservatives seemed resurgent. Washington's initial win and reelection in 1987 established the charismatic politician as a folk hero. It also bolstered hope among Democrats that the party could win elections by pulling together multiracial urban voters around progressive causes. Yet what could be called the Washington era revealed clear limits to electoral politics and racial coalition building when decoupled from neighborhood-based movement organizing. Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon K. Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment. Taking readers into Chicago's street-level politics and the often tense relationships among communities and their organizers, Mantler shows how white supremacy, deindustrialization, dysfunction, and voters' own contradictory expectations stubbornly impeded many of Washington's proposed reforms. Ultimately, Washington's historic victory and the thwarted ambitions of his administration provide a cautionary tale about the peril of placing too much weight on electoral politics above other forms of civic action—a lesson today's activists would do well to heed.

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Power to the Poor

Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

By: Gordon K. Mantler

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Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

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The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.

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The Multiracial Promise

Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America

By: Gordon K. Mantler

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Osborne Gordon: A Memoir with a Selection of His Writings

By: George Marshall,Osborne Gordon

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Osborne Gordon: A Memoir with a Selection of His Writings

By: George Marshall,Osborne Gordon

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Power to the Poor

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Power to the Poor

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The Multiracial Promise

Osborne Gordon: A Memoir with a Selection of His Writings

Osborne Gordon: A Memoir with a Selection of His Writings

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