Bob Lucas
Bob Lucas
Chicago Freedom Movement
In 1966 Father William Hogan, a Communist Party USA supporter, served as recording secretary of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, the group that, together with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, formed the Chicago Freedom Movement, which led the massive civil disobedience direct action campaign of the summer of 1966 in Chicago.
Hogan said that while King was "first among equals," the composition of the CFM staff was exceptional and reflected the scope of the movement: James Bevel, C. T. Vivian, Al Sampson, James Orange, Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young, who went on to become mayor of Atlanta and later U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
According to Hogan..."All were veterans of major battles in the South," he said, adding that key players from Chicago included Edwin Berry of the Urban League, Bob Lucas of CORE and Carl Fuqua of the NAACP.
"In addition to traditional civil rights organizations, CFM included representatives from the religious and liberal communities. Some of the unions affiliated with AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department provided staff assistance.[1]
GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Bob Lucas, Blade Liberation Alliance, Chicago , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[2]
Consulate invasion
In January 1985 Alice Palmer helped organize an invasion of the South African Consulate in Chicago. Among those arrested were Bob Lucas, Heather Booth, Addie Wyatt, and Buzz Palmer. The next day Buzz Palmer went to see mayor Harold Washington to see that the defendants went to trial, to make political capital.[3]
Project Vote! Chicago Coalition
As of May 11, 1992, Bob Lucas of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Coalition had attended the founding meeting of Project Vote! Chicago Coalition, but had not been asked to fully commit until the next meeting.[4]
Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
In 2005 Chicago Area Friends of SNCC organized the "Tell the Story: The Chicago SNCC History Project, 1960-1965" Chicago Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Chicago Civil Rights Movement, c. 1960-1965. The event was held October 21-22, 2005 Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
Members of the advisory committee included Bob Lucas.[5]
References
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- ↑ http://communistpartyillinois.blogspot.com/2010/01/chicago-freedom-movement-summer-1966.html
- ↑ Undated, GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee letterhead circa 1969
- ↑ Interview with Alice Palmer, Katherine Elizabeth McAuliff, Columbia College - Chicago, Spring 2010,
- ↑ PVCC letterhead May 11, 1992
- ↑ http://www.ben.edu/programs/cafsncc/