Chicago Freedom Movement

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rdf:langString Protest march in Marquette Park neighborhood during Chicago Freedom Movement

rdf:langString *De facto racial segregation in education, housing, and employment *SCLC's establishment of a campaign in the Northern United States

rdf:langString Mayor of Chicago *Richard J. Daley Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools *Benjamin Willis

rdf:langString CCCO member *Al Raby AFSC members *Kale Williams *Bernard Lafayette *David Jehnsen *Bill Moyer SCLC members *Martin Luther King Jr. *James Bevel *Jesse Jackson

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rdf:langString *Chicago City Hall *Chicago Board of Education *Chicago Housing Authority *Chicago Real Estate Board *Chicago Mortgage Bankers Association

rdf:langString *Coordinating Council of Community Organizations *American Friends Service Committee *Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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rdf:langString The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby. It was supported by the Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The movement included a large rally, marches, and demands to the City of Chicago. These specific demands covered a wide range of areas besides open housing, and included quality education, transportation and job access, income and employment, health, wealth generation, crime and the criminal justice system, community development, tenants rights, and quality of life. Operation Breadbasket, in part led by Jesse Jackson, sought to harness African-American consumer power. The Chicago Freedom Movement was the most ambitious civil rights campaign in the North of the United States, lasted from mid-1965 to August 1966, and is largely credited with inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act.