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"Operation Breadbasket is a narrative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, 1966-1971, an economic empowerment project that Martin Luther King Jr brought to Chicago as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement. Rev. Martin L. Deppe was a founding and active member of Breadbasket's steering committee throughout the life of this program. Using the power of the pulpit to galvanize consumer support including occasional economic withdrawal ("Don't Buy") efforts, the participating ministers, the project negotiated for a fair share of jobs in the African American…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 2017University of Georgia Press · 312 pages · 9780820350462
- Paperback · English · 2017University of Georgia Press · 312 pages · 9780820350479
- Other · English · 2017University of Georgia Press · 312 pages · 9780820350455
- Other · English · 2017University of Georgia Press · 312 pages · 9780820371887
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