Description: Color of button shows in pictures as black, but is dark brown in person. Original pinback button issued by the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) for the Chicago Freedom Movement protests led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Circa 1965. Measures 1 " inch. The Chicago Freedom 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 to end the practice of racial segregation across a wide range of activities that the city administered. The specific demands covered a wide range of areas including open housing, education, transportation, employment and policing practices The Chicago Freedom Movement was the among the most significant organized protests of the entire Civil Rights Movement. It is largely credited with forcing passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act and federal enforcement of the Civil Rights Act.
Price: 100 USD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
End Time: 2025-01-17T19:11:27.000Z
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Value 11: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Martin Luther King: SNCC
Black Civil Rights: Civil Rights Movement
Black Power Movement: Black Liberation Movement
Value 12: Black Panther Party
Value 14: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Value 15: Civil Rights Movement
Value 5: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Value 6: Freedom Riders
Value 3: Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO)
Value 1: Martin Luther King Jr
Value 2: Malcolm X
Signed: No
Students For Democratic Soceity: SDS
Material: Metal & Paper
Modified Item: No
Value 8: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP
Type: Button
Year: 1950s - 1970s
Value: Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools Benjamin Willis
Event: N/A
Theme: Political
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Country/Region: United States
Original: Authentic
