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Author Cruthird, Robert L.

Title The Kennedy-King College experiment in Chicago, 1969-2007 : how African Americans reshaped the curriculum and purpose of higher education / Robert L. Cruthird and Jeanette M. Williams ; with a foreword by Leonard Wash.

Publication Info. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2013]
©2013

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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.
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Subject Kennedy-King College (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
Kennedy-King College (Chicago, Ill.)
History.
African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
African Americans -- Education (Higher)
Illinois -- Chicago.
Community and college -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Community and college.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Williams, Jeanette M.
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)
0773417885 (electronic book)
9780773425811
0773425810