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“In Chains 400 Years … And Still in Chains in DC!” The 1966 Free DC Movement and the Challenges of Organizing in the City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2007

CATHERINE MADDISON
CATHERINE MADDISON
Affiliation:
Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3HU.
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Extract

In the summer of 1965 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) toured possible locations for a campaign that would highlight the problems African Americans faced in Northern cities.1 Chicago was chosen, primarily due to the presence of an effective local movement.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 169 - 192
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The author wishes to thank the reader for the Journal of American Studies, Professor Anthony Badger of the University of Cambridge and Sam Smith of the Progressive Review for reading and commenting on this article. She is also grateful to Jennifer King of the Special Collections Department, George Washington University, for her assistance with source materials, and Joellen ElBashir of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, for her assistance in securing permission to cite oral history material from the Civil Rights Documentation Project.