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Andrew Rossmeissl @ Tue, 2005-01-18 03:14

In 1965, the country’s most effective civil rights leaders joined forces in Chicago to attempt the first civil rights campaign in a large Northern city. Focusing on open housing, the movement enlisted thousands of people to march through Chicago’s streets and into its real estate offices. This site chronicles the people, organizations, and events that formed the movement, and brings together a vast collection of movement material. 2006 Commemoration · Historical overview · Timeline · More →

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Andrew Rossmeissl @ Fri, 2005-01-28 02:25


Addie Wyatt Addie L. Wyatt drew on her experience in the American labor movement to become a national leader for social justice, civil rights, and women’s rights. Wyatt was born in Mississippi in 1924 and soon her family followed other African Americans to Mississippi. In 1940, she married Claude S. Wyatt, Jr. Wyatt’s deep faith led her to eventually to join her husband as a minister of the Vernon Park Church of God. In 1941, Wyatt, looking to help with home expenses, began working in Chicago’s meat pack .....
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In late November, Edward Holmgren was appointed the executive director of the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, the new organization created by the Summit Agreement to advance the cause of equal opportunity in housing.

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