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Operation Breadbasket an untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 / Martin L. Deppe ; foreword by James R. Ralph, Jr.
| Author/creator | Deppe, Martin L. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] |
| Description | xxxv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016020563 |
| ISBN | 9780820350462 (hard bound : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820350479 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |