Operation Breadbasket

CTL-E-0296 · Organization · civil-rights · 1962–1971

Verified evidence grade of this record

SCLC economic-justice program (1962–1971); its Chicago chapter, headed by Jesse Jackson from 1966, used boycotts to win Black jobs.

The record

Also known as: SCLC Operation Breadbasket, Operation Breadbasket (SCLC, Chicago)

Referenced by

Jesse Jackson Sr. — affiliated with → this record

Sources

Wikipedia — Operation Breadbasket
African American Registry — Operation Breadbasket is formed

Record CTL-E-0296 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: BCI-001, SCI-004, ECON-001.
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Ida B. Wells — portrait from ‘Women of Distinction’ (1893)Photo: Public Domain (from ‘Women of Distinction,’ 1893), via Wikimedia Commons

Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago, Chicago, 1942Photo: Jack Delano, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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