TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deppe,Martin L.
TI  - Operation Breadbasket: an untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 
SN  - 9780820350455
AV  - F548.9.N4 D46 2017eb
U1  - 323.1196/0730773110904 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Deppe, Martin L.
KW  - Operation Breadbasket (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Grocery trade
KW  - African American business enterprises
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Methodist Church
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Entreprises noires américaines
KW  - Droits
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Église méthodiste
KW  - Clergé
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-249) and index; 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
N2  - "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
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