Something Better for Our Children: Black Organization in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971.(Book Review)

From: The Journal of African American History | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Dionne Danns, Something Better for Our Children: Black Organization in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 160. Cloth $75.95.

In Something Better for Our Children: Black Organization in Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971, Dionne Danns joins the rank of scholars examining black community mobilization and protests. However, unlike Aldon D. Morris in The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (1984), Danns's work investigates the organizing occurring in a large northern city in the period from 1963 to 1971. ...

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