Helen Shiller
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win is the story of Helen Shiller, a radical organizer who became an independent Chicago city council member and fought for justice for forty years. She participated in the historic fight against gentrification and helped break the back of racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor. The book provides insight into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, illuminating recurring political themes and battles that remain relevant today.
Format: Hardback
Length: 500 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Daring to Struggle,Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty-year struggle for justice in Chicago. Helen Shiller went from a radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor. Shiller participated, when few others did, in the historic fight against the gentrification of a unique economically and racially mixed Chicago community on the Northside. With insight into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, this book details numerous policy fights and conflicts in Chicago during this time, illuminating recurring political themes and battles that remain relevant to this day.
Daring to Struggle,Daring to Win is a compelling, insightful, must-read for all those struggling for a better world today.
Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642598889
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