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Amy Sonnie and James Tracy give you an excellent summary of organizing in the 1960s and early ’70s among the working-class white population of Chicago. Mainly centered on the Uptown-based Young Patriots, who formed the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and Young Lords.
You’ll learn about their breakfast program, modeled after the Black Panthers’, and struggles unique to their community. Read this book before concluding that white votes for the late Mayor Harold Washington came almost exclusively from young, affluent white-collar voters.