West Side Organization

CTL-E-1270 · Organization · other · 1950s, 1960s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Bottom-up economic organizing of unemployed people, tenants, and welfare recipients on the West Side; employment-discrimination protest independent of both machine and elite civic structures Geography: Chicago, Illinois (West Side)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-081; source research type(s): community_organization.

Sources

https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/college/chicagostudies-prod/s3fs-public/2022-05/Carter%20Thesis%20figs%20removed.pdf
https://www.kurtfstone.com/blog/2017/5/24/remembering-abner-mikva

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