Operation Breadbasket an untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 /

Operation Breadbasket an untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 /

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"Operation Breadbasket is a narrative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, 1966-1971, an economic empowerment project that Martin Luther King Jr brought to Chicago as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement. Rev. Martin L. Deppe was a founding and active me...

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Deppe, Martin L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Deppe, Martin L.
Operation Breadbasket (U.S.) > History.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Grocery trade > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African American business enterprises > Illinois > Chicago.
African Americans > Civil rights > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
Methodist Church > Clergy > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Online Access:Available in Books at JSTOR.
Table of Contents:
  • The team
  • Early campaigns
  • Evolving campaigns
  • Expansion
  • Interruption
  • Breaking the chains
  • The hunger campaign
  • Proliferation
  • Internal issues
  • Decline and transformation
  • Afterword
  • Operation Breadbasket chronology
  • Operation Breadbasket organizational charts
  • Appendixes
  • Operation Breadbasket Steering Committee
  • Breadbasket business division
  • Covenant between SCLC operation breadbasket and the Chicago Unit, Great A&P Tea Company.

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