Description |
1 online resource (xii, 637 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Connecting the dots -- Formative years, 1969-1976 -- Gilded-age and reconfiguration, 1976-1986 -- Politics of change, 1987-1994 -- Dust of changes rising?, 1994-1998 -- Climbing down the same tree, 1998-1999 -- Not enough time, 1999-2003 -- Pray what needs praying and say what needs saying, 2003-2009 -- Pillars of the academy/community -- Education, community activism, and social relevance 2007 and beyond. |
Summary |
This social history narrates conditions that led to the founding of Kennedy-King College on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois, during the late 1960s. It connects the dots between birth of the college and the push for social justice led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). SCLC joined with other groups in 1966 and launched the "Chicago campaign" to tear down racial barriers. The main narrative tells how concerns with social justice and ethnic group efficacy gave birth to Kennedy-King College in the first place. As for political and cultural time of day, this was after the gl. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Kennedy-King College (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
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Kennedy-King College (Chicago, Ill.) |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
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African Americans -- Education (Higher) |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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Community and college -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Community and college. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Williams, Jeanette M.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cruthird, Robert L. Kennedy-King College experiment in Chicago, 1969-2007. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2013 9780773425811 (DLC) 2011050854 (OCoLC)768169183 |
ISBN |
9780773417885 (electronic book) |
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0773417885 (electronic book) |
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9780773425811 |
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0773425810 |
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