San Antonio College Library

Explores the enigma of America's most powerful urban politician: a man who mastered the traditional political means as no one had done before him, but who could not come to grips with the new political challenges of the 60's from blacks and young people.

Explores the life and career of Richard J. Daley, one of the most powerful politicians of the twentieth century.

From his first election in 1955 to 1976, Mayor Richard J. Daley dominated Chicago's political landscape. The story of Daley is also the story of Chicago. Faced with issues confronting many American cities in the twentieth century - civil rights, integration, race riots, fiscal crisis, housing, suburban flight, urban renewal - Daley conducted Chicago's business with a steadfast resolve to withstand the many changes that threatened to engulf his city....

Reconstructs the developments that let to Chicago's 1983 political season, the primary and general election campaigns and their results.

William Grimshaw offers the reader a chronicle of the long and tangled relationship between the black community and the Chicago Democratic machine from its Great Depression origins to the present. What emerges is a myth-busting account not of one monolithic machine but of several distinct machine regimes, each with a unique relationship to black voters and leaders, but none offering them much more than bitter fruit. Through candid interviews with...

Power and powerlessness. Miami's black community-pummeled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment- explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city's Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor.