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Author Deppe, Martin L., author.

Title Operation Breadbasket : an untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 / Martin L. Deppe ; foreword by James R. Ralph, Jr.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-249) and index.
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.
Summary "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 member of Breadbasket's steering committee throughout the life of this program. Using the power of the pulpit to galvanize consumer support including occasional economic withdrawal ("Don't Buy") efforts, the participating ministers, the project negotiated for a fair share of jobs in the African American community of Chicago, and in time added products and services originating from that community. By the end of six years, Breadbasket's fifteen "covenants" with milk, soft drink, chain store and other consumer-oriented industries, brought approximately $57 million dollars of new income into the black community annually. The program ended when the project's national director, Rev. Jesse Jackson, resigned in December 1971, and essentially took the program out of SCLC into his own Operation PUSH, later Rainbow PUSH. This book is both a history of Operation Breadbasket, and a memoir of life in it as written by one of Breadbasket's most active participants. Deppe uses his extensive files--steering committee minutes, memoranda, brochures, letters, sermonic material, Chicago Defender archives, colleagues' files--along with extensive new research, including interviews with several surviving participants."--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Deppe, Martin L.
Deppe, Martin L.
Operation Breadbasket (U.S.) -- History.
Operation Breadbasket (U.S.)
History.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Grocery trade -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Grocery trade.
African American business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago.
African American business enterprises.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Civil rights workers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Methodist Church -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Clergy -- Biography.
Methodist Church.
Clergy.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Title Untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971
Other Form: Print version: 9780820350455
ISBN 9780820350455 (electronic book)
0820350451 (electronic book)
9780820350462
082035046X
9780820350479
0820350478