1966 West Side Rent Strike

1966 West Side Rent Strike
	Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Date	January 26, 1966
Location	North Lawndale (West Side), Chicago
Parties to the civil conflict
Unions to End Slums; Lawndale Union East Garfield Park Union JOIN Community Union; Students for a Democratic Society Tenant Action Council Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO); American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC);	Chicago City Hall; Chicago Board of Education; Chicago Housing Authority; Chicago Real Estate Board; Chicago Mortgage Bankers Association;
Lead figures
CCCO member Al Raby AFSC members Kale Williams Bernard Lafayette David Jehnsen Bill Moyer SCLC members Martin Luther King Jr. Bernard Lee James Bevel Jesse Jackson	Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools Benjamin Willis

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Background

On January 26, 1966 Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta King moved into a North Lawndale slum flat at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave, with rent at $90 a month (Error when using {{Inflation}}: |index=US (parameter 1) not a recognized index.). The goal was to highlight the slum conditions in Chicago.^[10]

"A West Side apartment will symbolize the slum-lordism that I hope to smash."
— Martin Luther King, ^[10]

The Kings' had a two of SCLC staff pose as a couple looking for an apartment in order to secure the place for the Kings' without revealing their identity. After the landlord realized who would be living there they scrambled to send over a crew to fix up the apartment. Both the fridge and the gas stove in the apartment were partially broken, and the apartments' complex hallway smelled of urine.^[10] ^[13]Lua error in Module:Mapframe at line 311: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Strike

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Aftermath

Notes

↑ Full name:Lawndale Union to End Slums
↑ Full name:East Garfield Park Union to End Slums
↑ Jobs Or Income Now

References

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↑ "The Chicago Freedom Movement | National Low Income Housing Coalition". nlihc.org. 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ Tatman, Heather (2022-01-29). "Fair Housing History Lesson: The Chicago Freedom Movement". Fair Housing Council of Oregon. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ Momodu, Samuel (2016-08-31). "Chicago Freedom Movement (1965–1967) •". Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ "DR. KING OCCUPIES A FLAT IN SLUMS; Will Lead Chicago Campaign Threatens Rent Strikes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ Reporter, The Chicago (2016-02-01). "The roots of the Chicago Freedom Movement". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
↑ King, Martin Luther; Carson, Clayborne (1998). "Chapter 28: Chicago Campaign". The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-52412-4. Search this book on
↑ Hill, Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, Norman (2018-01-15). "The Chicago Freedom Movement's quest for economic justice". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ "Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005) - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy". 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ "The housing struggle then and now". SocialistWorker.org. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 "The Longest March". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
↑ Gellman, Erik S. (June 2017). "The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North". Journal of American History. 104 (1): 270. doi:10.1093/jahist/jax135. ISSN 0021-8723.
↑ (PDF) https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC40_scans/40.Movement.October.1966.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ Sonnie, Amy; Tracy, James (2011). Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power: community organizing in radical times. New York, N.Y: Melville House. ISBN 978-1-935554-66-0. Search this book on
↑ (PDF) https://www.sds-1960s.org/NLN/NewLeftNotes-vol1-no19.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)

[1] Full name:Lawndale Union to End Slums

[2] Full name:East Garfield Park Union to End Slums

[3] Jobs Or Income Now

[4] "The Chicago Freedom Movement | National Low Income Housing Coalition". nlihc.org. 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[5] Tatman, Heather (2022-01-29). "Fair Housing History Lesson: The Chicago Freedom Movement". Fair Housing Council of Oregon. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[6] Momodu, Samuel (2016-08-31). "Chicago Freedom Movement (1965–1967) •". Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[7] "DR. KING OCCUPIES A FLAT IN SLUMS; Will Lead Chicago Campaign Threatens Rent Strikes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[8] Reporter, The Chicago (2016-02-01). "The roots of the Chicago Freedom Movement". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-29.

[9] King, Martin Luther; Carson, Clayborne (1998). "Chapter 28: Chicago Campaign". The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-52412-4. Search this book on

[10] Hill, Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, Norman (2018-01-15). "The Chicago Freedom Movement's quest for economic justice". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[11] "Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005) - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy". 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[12] "The housing struggle then and now". SocialistWorker.org. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[:0-13] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 "The Longest March". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-25.

[14] Gellman, Erik S. (June 2017). "The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North". Journal of American History. 104 (1): 270. doi:10.1093/jahist/jax135. ISSN 0021-8723.

[15] (PDF) https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC40_scans/40.Movement.October.1966.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)

[16] Sonnie, Amy; Tracy, James (2011). Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power: community organizing in radical times. New York, N.Y: Melville House. ISBN 978-1-935554-66-0. Search this book on

[17] (PDF) https://www.sds-1960s.org/NLN/NewLeftNotes-vol1-no19.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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