Chicago Quote by Emory Douglas

“1960 Elections: Richard Nixon vs. John F. Kennedy Before the election, a group within the Christian Right plotted to kill John Kennedy in Van…

— Mae Brussell

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

— Armie Hammer

In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an…

— Donald Trump

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he…

— Nat Hentoff

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word…

— Joan Didion

John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Terrorism carried the day. Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political violence was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of…

— Walter Winchell

“BY THE END OF MY JUNIOR YEAR, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS WERE MAKING their way into the news. The first one I heard about was in…

— Brooks Brown

“The Democratic convention that took place in Chicago in late August turned out to be such a wild and bloody affair that the first-ballot…

— James T. Patterson

Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to…

— Bill Ayers