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

Helen Shiller
$24.95
Publication Date: November 15th, 2022
Publisher:
Haymarket Books
ISBN:
9781642598421
Pages:
500
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Description

Helen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Panther Party alliance to Mayor Harold Washington's 26th vote to lonely voice against Mayor Richard M. Daley on a myriad of issues.

About the Author

Helen Shiller, raised by migrant Jewish parents, was radicalized by the anti-war and civil rights movements. Shiller was in a collective of whites aligned with the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Beginning in 1987, Shiller was a radical Chicago alderperson for 24 years.