Download or read book Don t Come to Chicago The Events Surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention as Experienced by Chicago Residents written by Brian C. Mullgardt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concerns itself with how residents of Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood responded to and influenced the demonstrations surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention within the broader struggle over urban renewal from 1948 to 1972. In the years prior to 1968 two factions, one for an enclosed neighborhood and one promoting a more economically and racially diverse one, fought to advance their visions of community. The first two chapters trace the formation of each faction, and chart their initial disagreements over urban renewal from 1948-1968. The second chapter also documents the birth of the counterculture in the area. The third chapter explores protest planning during the months before the Convention, and analyzes the role of residents during Convention week demonstrations. When the Yippies announced to the world they would protest in the area in 1968, each side transferred its attention away from renewal, and to the Convention. Those for an enclosed community worked with police to repel protesters, while those for an open community worked to aid them. The subject of chapter four is the impact of Convention violence on urban renewal from 1968-1972. Pro-diversity activists, now distrustful of authorities and more openly confrontational, began to ally with gang members and new, angrier residents to promote change. This only entrenched their opponents, who by now had come to accept some diversity in the area. As part of this entrenchment, the forces for an enclosed Lincoln Park then worked more closely with authorities, including the U.S. Congress, to ultimately repress the movement for a more open neighborhood.
Download or read book Rights in Conflict written by Daniel Walker and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report submitted by Daniel Walker, direcotr of the Chicago Study Team, to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
Download or read book No One Was Killed written by John Schultz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While other writers contemplated the events of the 1968 Chicago riots from the safety of their hotel rooms, John Schultz was in the city streets, being threatened by police, choking on tear gas, and listening to all the rage, fear, and confusion around him. The result, No One Was Killed, is his account of the contradictions and chaos of convention week, the adrenalin, the sense of drama and history, and how the mainstream press was getting it all wrong. "A more valuable factual record of events than the city’s white paper, the Walker Report, and Theodore B. White’s Making of a President combined."—Book Week "As a reporter making distinctions between Yippie, hippie, New Leftist, McCarthyite, police, and National Guard, Schultz is perceptive; he excels in describing such diverse personalities as Julian Bond and Eugene McCarthy."—Library Journal "High on my short list of true, lasting, inspired evocations of those whacked-out days when the country was fighting a phantasmagorical war (with real corpses), and police under orders were beating up demonstrators who looked at them funny."—Todd Gitlin, from the foreword
Download or read book Queer Clout written by Timothy Stewart-Winter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Clout weaves together activism and electoral politics to trace the gay movement's path since the 1950s in Chicago. Stewart-Winter stresses gay people's and African Americans' shared focus on police harassment, highlighting how black political leaders enabled white gays and lesbians to join an emerging liberal coalition in city hall.
Download or read book Television Coverage of the Democratic National Convention Chicago Illinois 1968 Staff Report of the Special Subcommittee on Investigations 1969 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago 1968 written by Nicolas W. Proctor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1968, Democrats gather at their National Convention in Chicago to debate a platform for a deeply divided party. Factions are split over issues such as civil rights, infrastructure, and the war on poverty—not to mention the war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, crowds of protesters descend upon the city. Impassioned antiwar demonstrators plan sit-ins and marches, while the absurdist Yippies, determined to make a mockery of the convention, intend to nominate a pig for president. Journalists flood the area to cover the stories of the delegates and protesters. Over the course of this game, players will develop a better understanding of the complexities of the social and cultural tumult that has come to be known as "the Sixties."
Download or read book The Strategy of Confrontation written by Chicago (Ill.). Department of Law and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battleground Chicago written by Frank Kusch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 Democratic Convention, best known for police brutality against demonstrators, has been relegated to a dark place in American historical memory. Battleground Chicago ventures beyond the stereotypical image of rioting protestors and violent cops to reevaluate exactly how—and why—the police attacked antiwar activists at the convention. Working from interviews with eighty former Chicago police officers who were on the scene, Frank Kusch uncovers the other side of the story of ’68, deepening our understanding of a turbulent decade. “Frank Kusch’s compelling account of the clash between Mayor Richard Daley’s men in blue and anti-war rebels reveals why the 1960s was such a painful era for many Americans. . . . to his great credit, [Kusch] allows ‘the pigs’ to speak up for themselves.”—Michael Kazin “Kusch’s history of white Chicago policemen and the 1968 Democratic National Convention is a solid addition to a growing literature on the cultural sensibility and political perspective of the conservative white working class in the last third of the twentieth century.”—David Farber, Journal of American History
Download or read book Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Temporary Roll of Delegates and Alternates to the Democratic National Convention Chicago Illinois August 26 1968 written by Democratic Party. National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 1968 and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1968 Democratic National Convention written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Profiles the race for the nomination in 1968 *Includes accounts of the riots and some of the turmoil inside the convention hall *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "This is fantastic and it's only Sunday night. They might declare martial law in this town." - Jerry Rubin, one of the Yippie leaders, August 25, 1968 "Law and order will be maintained." - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley In 1968, the Republican Convention was a display of congeniality and unity, despite the various factions each supporting a separate candidate. Choosing Spiro Agnew as his running mate, Richard Nixon won the nomination on the first ballot, with Ronald Reagan moving to make it unanimous. Conservatives such as Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond immediately joined in the support. From that moment, the results of Nixon's work since the 1962 defeat took effect, and he demonstrated himself to be a far more thoughtful and careful candidate than in the past. The image of a "New Nixon" emerged, "more statesmanlike, less combative, more mature and presidential." The Democrats, on the other hand, were in terrible disarray. The Vietnam War raged with no honorable end in sight, President Kennedy had been assassinated several years before, and public unrest at home grew by the day. Even still, when Senator Eugene McCarthy decided to throw his hat into the ring in 1968, it was a surprise, but it was an even greater one when he was only narrowly defeated in the first primary in New Hampshire on March 12th. Though President Lyndon B. Johnson had won the primary, the close margin made him appear vulnerable, an unusual position for a sitting president, and after McCarthy's close shave in New Hampshire, Senator Bobby Kennedy judged the time was right to enter the race. With "Camelot" still fresh in America's minds, he declared his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States, and Bobby announced his candidacy from the same location where his brother had announced his own 8 years earlier: the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. The McCarthy campaign charged that he was an opportunist, relying on McCarthy's initial candidacy before declaring its own, but regardless, the Kennedy name continued to attract Americans across the country, and Bobby seemingly represented another chance at Camelot. Kennedy seemed to be on the rise during the summer, only to be assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan on the night he won the California primary. At this point, Johnson's own vice president, Hubert Humphrey, entered the race despite having not competed at all during the first half of the year. In 1968, the process of electing a nominee was not as well established as it is today. In fact, far from today's process, not all states held a primary; at the time, only 13 states held primaries. At the convention, the anti-war faction did not fully line up behind McCarthy as expected, and Humphrey won the nomination in one of the ugliest convention displays in American history. Today, the 1968 Democratic National Convention is less known for its results - Vice President Humphrey was nominated and Maine's Edmund Muskie was chosen as his running mate - and much better known for the protests that culminated with riots in Chicago outside of the convention hall. Police intervention on the convention floor and the violence outside were all witnessed on live television, and the fiasco left the Democratic Party shattered and running from far behind. In an additional twist, Alabaman George Wallace mounted a national campaign as the candidate for the American Independent Party, receiving significant support in the Deep South. As a result, Republican candidate Richard Nixon, who had been all but banished from political life after the loss in 1960 to John F. Kennedy, won the 1968 election by almost half a million votes, good enough to create an electoral landslide.
Download or read book Subversive Involvement in Disruption of 1968 Democratic Party National Convention written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1968 Democratic Convention written by Tom McGowen and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2003 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents background information on the Cold War and the Vietnam war as context for events surrounding the Democratic Party Convention of 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, focusing on the street confrontations between police and activists during the convention.
Download or read book The Convention and the Crisis Chicago 1968 written by Gerald Kurland and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise summary of events preceding and encompassing the Democratic Party Convention of 1968 which so divided the party loyalties that Richard Nixon, a Republican, was resultantly elected President.
Download or read book Rights in Conflict written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Riot Becomes Many written by Madelyn Morris and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights in Conflict written by Daniel Walker and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
