Mayor Harold Washington : champion of race and reform in Chicago
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Mayor Harold Washington : champion of race and reform in Chicago
University of Illinois Press, c2018
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In 1983, Harold Washington made history by becoming Chicago's first African American mayor. The racially charged campaign and election heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government.
Roger Biles's sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the backroom deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the Chicago machine's autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington's own growth through his winning of a second term--a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987.
Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago's modern history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Race, Reform, and Redistribution 1
1 From Machine Regular to Progressive Democrat 15
2 The Plan and the Man 53
3 The Devalued Prize 105
4 Chicago Works Together 145
5 Balanced Growth 189
6 In Search of a Mandate 231
7 The Final Months 270
8 Harold Washington and Chicago 307
Notes 331
Index 377
Photographs follow page 181
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