Talk:Chicago Freedom Movement

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black peole —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.232.2 (talk) 20:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing your comment, 66.99.232.2. "Black peole" indeed! I've never really looked at this article except very briefly in passing, and for such an important movement in the overall sweep of both 1960s and world history - this is the Open Housing movement! - it seems to have missed much of the information and could really be expanded into a much fuller page. There wasn't even mention of the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. My apologies to 66.99.232.2 for adding another comment, since his was the only one for the page for the Chicago Open Housing Movement! Randy Kryn 15:07, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Lol, Randy. The sole comment on the page was actually modified in January 2008. If I were you, I would have just removed it, but there's no need to do that now. Your edits sound good to me, but I don't know anything about the subject of this article; the article is only on my watchlist because of some vandalism that lasted for nearly two weeks. Graham87 04:56, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Good find! I hope he comes back to contribute again. And look at the template on top of this page - the Chicago Open Housing Movement has been rated of "Low importance" by the Chicago project group. Maybe they forgot about the Chicago Fire or the 1919 Black Sox too! Randy Kryn 20:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

dead link

the sole link seems to be defunct * 74.78.15.101 (talk) 17:43, 10 July 2014 (UTC)grumpy

Thanks for letting us know. I've fixed it. Graham87 05:59, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Moved this edit from article page

This edit was posted on article page on 17:41, 29 February 2016 by 71.241.239.234.

TO WOME IT MAY CONCERN:

Allow me to introduce myself, I am Reverend Doctor Elbert Ransom, Jr., a prominent civil rights activist with Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., 1954 in Montgomery, Alabama. I started out with Dr. King as a member of his first church congregation, (Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, while a student at Alabama State College for Negroes. I began working with Dr. King in the Montgomery Improvement Association during the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott as a student organizer. My association with him gave me an opportunity to accompany him around Montgomery as things became violent. I rejoined King in 1966 during the Chicago Freedom Movement where he came to emphasize racial segregation was not only relegated in the south but the north as well. As you have written the core problem was segregated housing which was being strongly supported by the Chicago Real Estate Industry, the city of Chicago, including Mayor Richard Daley, the white business community, and some white residents. The Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference,SCLC, uprooted its demonstrations in Selma, Alabama to begin a movement in Chicago. The genesis of the Chicago Freedom Movement began by Sending a written report to Dr. King as SCLC was in search of a northern city to expose racial segregation practices. Reverend James Bevel of SCLC was identified by Dr. King to move into Chicago to direct the aims of the movement. Prior to The entry of SCLC, Albert Raby, a Chicago high school teacher, and the head of was attempting to bring public attention to racial segregation[.]

Mitchumch (talk) 00:49, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Overcapitalization

Moved to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Over-capitalization of events, movements, etc.

This rampant overcapitalization needs to stop. Randy Kryn, you can't cite your own off-site article, per WP:COI, as the "evidence" that "open housing movement" is a proper name and must be capitalized. As we see in the post immediately above this, people involved in this field overcapitalize quite excessively, even things like "the Chicago Real Estate Industry", which is akin to writing "the Bus Driver Occupation" or "the Hobby of Playing Video Games All Night". It's the specialized-style fallacy, the belief that anything significant to students, aficionados, or specialists of something is Magically Imbued with Special Status and deserves capitalized letters all over the place just because It's So Very Damned Important. English just does not work that way.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  06:18, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

There is no 'rampant overcapitalization' which 'needs to stop'. Looks like I've made this one mistake, in thinking that the capitalization of Chicago Open Housing Movement was one of the standardly accepted names. In other names, such as the recent lower-casing of Montgomery Bus Boycott (to Montgomery bus boycott), upper-case proper names should be justifiably applied. Randy Kryn 13:32, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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Notification: Housing in Illinois

A request has been submitted to WikiProject Illinois for a new article to be created on the topic of Housing in Illinois. Please join the discussion or consider contributing to the new article. Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 14:00, 28 October 2020 (UTC)